Dougy Book Quotes & Sayings

Whatever the "Christian conservatives" in America say, there is no one set of rightful opinions that follow on automatically from your belief. If you have signed up for the redeeming love of God, you don't - you really don't - have to sign up too for low taxes, creationism, gun ownership, the death penalty, closing abortion clinics, climate change denial and grotesque economic inequality. You are entirely at liberty to believe that the kingdom would be better served by social justice, redistributive taxation, feminism, gay rights and excellent public transportation. You won't have the authoritative sanction of the gospel for believing in those things either, of course. But you can. — Francis Spufford

I don't have a lot of "I can't" inside me. — Oprah Winfrey

The intelligent investor shouldn't ignore Mr. Market entirely. Instead, you should do business with him- but only to the extent that it serves your interests. — Benjamin Graham

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms. — Jodi Picoult

In God 'tis glory: And when men aspire,
'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire. — John Dryden

But this time as soon as he moved she began to fade. He stopped at once, not breathing again, motionless, willing his eyes to see that she had stopped too. But she had not stopped. She was fading, going. "Wait," he said, talking as sweet as he had ever heard his voice speak to a woman: "Den lemme go wid you, honey." But she was going. — William Faulkner

If I have to choose between you and me - I like me better. — Charlaine Harris

Maggie shook her head. I'm not calm, I'm just ... hesitant. It's like, I always think pretty soon my life will be this great story, as soon as it starts. — Jodi Lynn Anderson

I think people have always misinterpreted my self-destructive nature as nihilistic, because if you don't care about the world, you can't create art. I am misanthropic and self-loathing, but never nihilistic. And I think I act far worse off-stage than onstage. — Marilyn Manson

Liberalism denies that there is any fixed or universal human nature. — Nancy Pearcey

Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem. — Marian Wright Edelman

When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer. — Origen

The day after the darkest hour is always the most beautiful. — Wheston Chancellor Grove