Eerdmans Publishers Quotes & Sayings

Jokes are the declarations of fools. — Samantha Shannon

Our starting point is not the individual:
We do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, or clothe the naked ... Our objectives are different: We must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world. — Joseph Goebbels

The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money. — Ted Shackelford

The whole point is to discipline the mind. — Swami Vivekananda

I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those who judge of things from books or from their senses. Ignorance has so far the advantage over learning; for it can make an appeal to you from what you know; but you cannot re-act upon it through that which it is a perfect stranger to. Ignorance is, therefore, power. — William Hazlitt

It was all very well to be ambitious, but ambition should not kill the nice qualities in you. — Noel Streatfeild

Not me. Give me honesty anytime. — Richelle Mead

Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing. — Gordon Lish

Angela believed that the Nephilistic immune system reacted negatively to human-made chemicals and pollutants. She believed that these unnatural elements worked to break down the cellular structures inherited from the Watchers, creating a form of deadly cancer. — Danielle Trussoni

It's the place you would go if you wanted to buy a stereo system for under thirty-five dollars and didn't care if it sounded like the band was playing in a mailbox under water in a distant lake. — Bill Bryson

In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do not want to do the work that love demands. When the practice of love invites us to enter a place of potential bliss that is at the same time a place of critical awakening and pain, many of us turn our backs on love. — Bell Hooks

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive. — David Duchovny