Feeing Defeated Quotes & Sayings

I walk on the surface of a shifting bog. I have to grab for whatever I can find that is solid. — Morgan Llywelyn

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding?joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust. — Jane Austen

I have really good female friends. I've never bought the whole men-and-women-can't-be-friends thing. I think that's sort of nonsense. — Josh Radnor

Sula was wrong. Hell ain't things lasting forever. Hell is change. Not only did men leave and children grow up and die, but even the misery didn't last. One day she wouldn't even have that. This very grief that had twisted her into a curve on the floor and flayed her would be gone. She would lose that too.
Why, even in hate here I am thinking of what Sula said. — Toni Morrison

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in. — Mark Twain

Jesus said, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to [God] the Father except through me." Peter, one of the four fishermen Jesus called, later said of Jesus, "Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." Jesus did not claim to be one dish on the buffet line of spirituality from which we can pick and choose the elements that best suit our taste. And if his claims are true, then his call demands everything, and we have no other choice - like those fishermen before us - but to drop everything and follow him. — David Platt

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. — Jasper Johns

Bring it on, bring the pain on, I want to face it — Alexander Masters