Escalations Quotes & Sayings

When a king speaks, the armies move. But when a wise man speaks, only the beard shakes. — Vinoba Bhave

Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that's not the whole story. — Michael Gungor

our trials do not define us, rather they refine us. — Jeanna Ellsworth

My mother raised me, and then freed me, — Maya Angelou

I think that Subway has shown their own personal commitment as a company and how they believe in healthy choices. — Apolo Ohno

Mr Darcy is my severest critic. — Elizabeth Bennett

Paul's vision, though, is starting small, with actual communities in which reconciliation and justice has to be practiced - like the rich/poor distinction in the Corinthian church, for instance, or the projected reconciliation between Philemon and Onesimus. But he clearly believes (Ephesians 3) that communities like this send a signal to the wider world that Jesus is Lord - which is aimed at then the whole world coming into line. — N. T. Wright

The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious. — Aimee Bender

Escape procedures, however, were in full force. Some people, in a frenzy of antipathy and boredom, were drinking themselves into extreme approximations of longing to be together. Exchanging phone numbers, demanding to have lunch, proposing to share an apartment - the escalations of fellowship had the air of a terminal auction, a fierce adult version of slapjack, a bill-payer loan from a finance company, an attempt to buy with one grand convivial debt, to be paid in future, an exit from each other's company at that instant. — Renata Adler

What motivates me more than money are God and my family. — Albert Pujols

If women just got into it a little more, then the world would be happier. Instead of stabbing each other behind the back, just get into a fight, and then everything is out in the open. — Odette Annable