Electroshock Mount Quotes & Sayings

Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death. - DIETRICH BONHOEFFER — Eric Metaxas

I repeat that there is no practical joke here, but that we are investigating a serious crime. A vague thrill ran through me as I listened to my companion's words and saw the stern gravity which had hardened his features. This brutal preliminary seemed to shadow forth some strange and inexplicable horror in the background. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The 'survival of the fittest' is beneficently inevitable; the capitalist is powerless against labor, unless the State ... steps in, and helps him catch and fleece his victims. The old plea of despotism, that liberty is unsafe, reappears now in the mistaken notion that competition is hostile to labor. — Ezra Heywood

The myth of socialism is far stronger than the reality of capitalism. That is because capitalism is not really an ism at all. It is what people do if you leave them alone. — Arnold Beichman

Lady Harborough ... was on the platform, making a short speech in which she described the valuable work her hospital fund was doing. It seemed to consist largely of rescuing unmarried mothers from poverty and subjecting them to slavery instead, with the additional disadvantage of being preached at daily by evangelical clergymen. — Philip Pullman

If my children call me during the day and leave a message, I return those calls first, not last. — Dave Checketts

To pleasant songs my work was once given, and bright were all my labors then; / But now in tears to sad refrains I must return. — Deborah Harkness

I have discovered that if I can change the way I think about something, I can change the way I react to it. If I change the way I react, I can change the way I define myself as a mother. — Lysa TerKeurst

When one would ask most modern artists, poets, writers and other status quo fueled semi-intellectuals who Machiavelli was - was that an opera singer? — Martijn Benders

They are certain old qualities and flavors within you. However much you may try to pretend that you're a very nice and loving person, when deals are offered, suddenly old vasanas will take control of you. There's an urge to bite the deal. — Sadhguru

There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind — Voltaire

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. — Logan Pearsall Smith

In order to be wildly popular you had to make people believe that you were fun and interesting I just wasn't that much of a con artist. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

There is no way to satisfy the desires of all the people who clamor for their time, so leaders must subjugate their schedule to God's will and invest themselves in those activities and projects most critical. Unlike — Richard Blackaby