Discards In Old Quotes & Sayings

Aussies are big and empty, just like their country. — Ian Botham

In other words, despite all of the environmental pressures from my neighborhood and community, I received a different message at home. And that just might have saved me. — J.D. Vance

I don't have a brief for every single reaction of Israel, but I think it is important that the political negotiations occur free of the threat of terrorism. — Henry A. Kissinger

And the feeling that washed over him was like the feeling you get when your new puppy pees in the house for the hundredth time. Exhaustion in the face of how crap everything is. — Asa Larsson

It is the most vicious of all crimes - to be abused by someone you had a relationship with! Because then you blame yourself. — Joe Biden

I bought a camera with my first ever paycheck. — Alice Englert

Christians often ask why God does not speak to them, as he is believed to have done in former days. When I hear such questions, it always makes me think of the rabbi who asked how it could be that God often showed himself to people in the olden days whereas nowadays nobody ever sees him. The rabbi replied: "Nowadays there is no longer anybody who can bow low enough."
This answer hits the nail on the head. We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions. The Buddhist discards the world of unconscious fantasies as useless illusions; the Christian puts his Church and his Bible between himself and his unconscious; and the rational intellectual does not yet know that his consciousness is not his total psyche. — C. G. Jung

Turn the clock to zero, honey, we're starting up a brand new day. — Sting

Electing love has selected some of the worst to be made the best. Pebbles of the brook grace turns into jewels for the crown-royal. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Jonas was careful about language. — Lois Lowry

The negative principle is less identity-with-self than non-difference-with-self. This absence becomes a factor only by negation of its own negation. It is less a unity of the multiple in the living than an adhesion between the elements of the multiple. In a sense, there is only the multiple, and this totality that surges from it is not a totality in potential, but the establishment of a certain dimension. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture. — Charles Colson

Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts. — Hank Williams Jr.

I want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin. — Khaled Hosseini

We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness. — Thomas Carlyle

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work. — Sara Paretsky