Downtrodden Syn Quotes & Sayings

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards. — Janis Joplin

Oh my God, calm down, Darwin. Don't get all crazy just 'cause I threw a vampire monkey wrench in your faulty Jesus-zombie logic. — Jenny Lawson

Being fat is the absolute nadir of the misfit. You're a misfit because nothing fits. You don't fit in. You're not fit. You're fat. Fat doesn't have the poetic cachet of alcohol, the whiff of danger in the drug of choice. You're just fat. Being fat is so un-American, so unattractive, unerotic, unfashionable, undisciplined, unthinkable, uncool. It makes you invisible. It makes you conspicuous. — Claudia Shear

If the gospel was of a nature to be propagated or maintained by the power of the world, God would not have intrusted it to fishermen. To defend the gospel appertains not to the princes and pontiffs of this world. — Martin Luther

I feel a deep sense of responsibility to share everything that we've learned from TOMS, so that others can learn from both our mistakes and the counterintuitive principles that have guided our success. — Blake Mycoskie

The biggest problem confronting the country is our excessive spending. If we're not going to deal with it now, when are we going to deal with it? And we've watched the government explode over the last four years. We've dealt with the revenue issue. — Mitch McConnell

Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain — Elie Wiesel

I think most people know inherently that good wins. — Ginnifer Goodwin

You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7. — Joan Van Ark

I joke that if she [Debbie Wasserman Schultz] could find a 3 a.m. slot in the Home Shopping Network, she would grab that. So those emails only confirm what we knew. — Jonathan Tasini

I have scars on the backs of my arms from dressers in Paris scraping me with pins as I was taking a shirt or gown off. — Tyra Banks

Shall I tell you what rock and roll is, Johnno, from someone who doesn't perform, but observes?
It's restless and rude. It's defiant and daring. It's a fist shaken at age. It's a voice that often screams out questions because the answers are always changing. The very young play it because they're searching for some way to express their anger or joy, their confusion and their dreams. Once in a while, and only once in a while, someone comes along who truly understands, who has the gift to transfer all those needs and emotions into music. — Nora Roberts

Never trust a man in a jumpsuit — Charles Bukowski

Believers talk about trusting in the Lord with their whole heart and refusing to lean on thier own understanding, but no one really knows what that means until circumstances cast them headfirst into a dark and painful place. If we give ourselves fully to God in those moments, we will obtain keepsakes of Him to treasure now and forever. — David Jeremiah

Artists can help re-imagine a conflict and start a dialogue. — Romesh Gunesekera