Dismissable Offense Quotes & Sayings

Every prayer is an agreement with yourself. The mind is asking the real you, which is life, to guide your decisions for every single choice that you make. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Pick up any book about personal finance and you're likely to read a 200-page mind-fuck about being cheap. Of course, these books don't overtly say, "Be cheap," but hide behind slippery phrases like "the simple life" or "frugal living." Some — MJ DeMarco

I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon. — Matt Dillon

I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms. — Steve Wozniak

I try not to have too many opinions; I just marvel at the world we live in. — Paula Patton

Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge — J.R. Ward

The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible. — Patrick Ness

To believe in God is to "let God be God." This is the chief business of faith. As we believe we are allowing God to be in our lives what He already is in Himself. In trusting God, we are living out our assumptions, putting into practice all that we say He is in theory so that who God is and what He has done can make the difference in every part of our lives.
This means that the accuracy of our pictures of God is not tested by our orthodoxy or our testimonies but by the truths we count on in real life. It is demonstrated when the heat is on, the chips are down, and reality seems to be breathing down our necks. What we presuppose at such moments is our real picture of God, and this may be very different from what we profess to believe about God. (God in the Dark, ch. 4) — Os Guinness

Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to. — John Berger

Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it. — Anne Lamott

Charlotte blushed again and he laughed. Her cell phone rang and she tapped it and said, I'm okay, JP. I'll be home in ten minutes. — Kimball Lee

You are unmannerly,sharp-tounged, and show no respect for your betters,which is practically everyone given your lowly ravel birth."
"I am Edema Ruh to my bones.
That means my blood is red.
It means I breathe the free air and walk where my feet take me.
I do not cringe and fawn like a dog at a man's title.
That looks like pride to people who have spent their lives cultivating supple spines"
-Kvothe — Patrick Rothfuss

The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel