Dictionary Of Southern Quotes & Sayings

Repentance keeps sin from condemning us because Jesus died and scorned the shame. — Mark Driscoll

President Ronald Reagan on his 1980 opponent: "I had a dream the other night. I dreamed that Jimmy Carter came to me and asked why I wanted his job. I told him I didn't want his job. I want to be President." — Bob Dole

I took the road less traveled...where the heck am I? — Brant Randall

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Maximum damage. It was the beginning of the end. Either we would fail or not. At least we could say we tried. — Maria V. Snyder

You abandon your comforting and familiar habits with the hope (the mere hope!) that something greater will be offered you in return for what you've given up. Every — Elizabeth Gilbert

We are probably wrong to suspect that each individual has some secret passion, some mystery, some weakness; if Jean-Yves's father had had to express his innermost convictions, the profound meaning he ascribed to life, he could probably have cited nothing more than a slight disappointment. — Michel Houellebecq

Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight. — Mike Tyson

See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored. — Garrett Hedlund

These words were utter'd in a pensive mood, Even while mine eyes were on that solemn sight: — William Wordsworth

This is the life I live, and this is the stuff I experience. And like any good writer, I should just write about what goes in my life and what goes on around me. So that's what I chose to do. — Sune Rose Wagner

In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance. — Matt Taibbi