Quotes & Sayings About Dimmesdale's Pain

Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them. — Thomas Sherlock

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

There are some people that will not pick up a phone and call you, but if you knock on a door and talk to them, they'll talk back to you. — Steve Martin

It was a crazy idea. But, as usual, that's all Percy had. — Rick Riordan

For people considering suicide, it is bullshit. Endure the moment. — Courtney Love

One of the biggest problems of 'In Search of Excellence' is that it focused on giant, publicly-traded companies. There are thousands upon thousands of excellent companies. Some of them are two-person accountancies in a community of three thousand people. — Tom Peters

She lay down beside me, Towards dawn she pronounced for the first time the word "death." She too seemed to be weary beyond endurance of the task of being a human being; and when I reflected on my dread of the world and its bothersomeness, on money, the movement, women, my studies, it seemed impossible that I could go on living. I consented easily to her proposal. — Osamu Dazai

Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry. — Henri Nouwen

Many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact, a precisely opposite situation prevails: biologists have documented a veritable glut of cases for rapid and eminently measurable evolution on timescales of years and decades. — Stephen Jay Gould

things you bone, end up boning you — Josh Stern

There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous, and those who are liars. — Kevin Bacon

It is a perverse faith, in that it reveres the "environment" ahead of people who live in it. It is a most ascetic superstition, in that it demands we live less happily and less freely and with less prosperity - the opposite of, say, the Protestant work ethic that helped build Ontario. — Ezra Levant

Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen. — Gloria Steinem

The majority of the things that I do, I'm actually afraid to do, but you just have to have a positive attitude and block out any fears that you have. — Aly Raisman