Escofferys Quotes & Sayings

Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than any feast. — Patience Gray

Stephen prayed for his persecutors, who had not been able even to listen to the Name of Christ, when he said of those very men by whom he was being stoned: "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge" And we see the result of this prayer in the case of the Apostle, for Paul, who kept the garments of those who were stoning Stephen, not long after became an apostle by the grace of God, having before been a persecutor. — Ambrose

I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength. — Sandra Lee

A writer is the one who loves to write ... on and about anything ... And this clears that I am a writer!! — Anamika Mishra

I've heard plenty of Christians try to answer the why question by going back to the what. "You have to believe because Jesus is the Son of God." But that's answering the why with more what. Increasingly we live in a time in which you can't avoid the why question. Just giving the what (for example, a vivid gospel presentation) worked in the days when the cultural institutions created an environment in which Christianity just felt true or at least honorable. But in a post-Christendom society, in the marketplace of ideas, you have to explain why this is true, or people will just dismiss it. — Timothy Keller

Wisdom is ancient, sublime, and transcendent; it is not periodic, political, or ideological. And — Curtis R. Mcmanus

In Kant's description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject's homeostatic balance, its unbearable pressure forcing the subject to act "beyond the pleasure principle," ignoring the pursuit of pleasures. For Lacan, exactly the same description holds for desire, which is why enjoyment is not something that comes naturally to the subject, as a realization of her inner potential, but is the content of a traumatic superego injunction. — Slavoj Zizek

I think it's useful to keep in mind I've been now President for over seven years and gun sales don't seem to have suffered during that time. — Barack Obama

an unlovely gaggle of contrary old codgers". — Bill Rowe

Kylie and I are both pretty brave - much braver than the Kardashians. We have the Jenner in us. — Kendall Jenner

Yes I'm a beast and I feast when I conquer! — Nicki Minaj

The captain scowled at her. Then he threw Petey to the floor with a coarse oath, knocking the scrimshaw and the carving knife from Petey's hands.
Petey gasped for breath as Captain Horn hovered over him, wearing the look of a man who'd just been struck in the noggin by a yardarm and was itching to tear apart the one who'd done it. — Sabrina Jeffries

Convincing Elinor, that whatever other unpardonable folly might bring him to Cleveland, he was not brought there by intoxication. — Jane Austen

We were friends, never paramours. A lover who is enigmatic will most likely prove to be a cataclysm waiting to happen. But a charming friend whose usual warmth is raveled through moments of cool inscrutability can be an intriguing companion. — Dean Koontz