Felix Manalo Quotes & Sayings

All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly. And I hate him for it. — Suzanne Collins

The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application. — Joseph Epstein

Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an act of ethnocentric violence by uprooting the text from the language and culture that gave it life. Translating into current, standard English at once conceals that violence and homogenizes foreign cultures, — Lawrence Venuti

Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up. — Thomas Brooks

It seemed ironic to her that women were considered far too meek for the morbidity of war, and yet a child could give their life in a battle they did not even understand. — Katlyn Charlesworth

The music is a continuing thing. — Stanley Donwood

In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because he has a need for it. Desperate needs bring about a hallucination of their solution: thirst hallucinates water, the need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts. — Alain De Botton

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful. — Herbert Hoover

The fear of being vulnerable prompts me into bringing myself forward. — David Ignatow

History is full of decapitations, and Iowa is no exception. — Andrew Smith

There is no such thing as a really rich victim. — T. Harv Eker

My default is self-destruction, and anything on top of that is a bloody lot of work. — Gillian Anderson

If only this city's entire population of lurking assholes shared one set of balls, so I could kick it repeatedly. — Scott Lynch

If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for my rehab. — Pete Rose

What Jesus did was not a mere example of something else, not a mere manifestation of some larger truth; it was itself the climactic event and fact of cosmic history. From then on everything is different ... the End came forward into the present in Jesus the Messiah — N. T. Wright