Finely Kneaded Quotes & Sayings

Why are hemorrhoids called hemorrhoids and asteroids called asteroids? Wouldn't it make more sense if it was the other way around? But if that was true, then a proctologist would be an astronaut. — Robert Schimmel

I just people to get big bang for their buck. I just feel like I am really lucky that I still get the support that I do from my fans when it is so easy to download music for free. When fans go out and support and buy my music that really means a lot to me so I want to make sure that I give the very best I can when selling a product. — Shane Bunting

Your happiness, you're wasting your time. You must be fearless enough to give yourself the love you didn't receive. Begin noticing how every day brings a new opportunity for your growth. How buried disagreements with your mother show up in arguments with your spouse. How unconscious feelings of unworthiness appear in everything you do (and don't do). All these experiences are your life's way of urging you to leave the past behind and make yourself whole. Pay attention. Every choice gives you a chance to pave your own road. Keep moving. Full speed ahead. — Oprah Winfrey

However, your life is nothing more than the outpicturing of your deepest imagination. — Susan G. Shumsky

Our human quest is to survive; our spiritual quest is to unite. — Asa Don Brown

We must respect the work we do. A slipshod method never pays- It may get by, but in our minds It makes a scar that always stays. — Rebecca McCann

'Pay it forward' has become a hackneyed concept, but I truly believe in it, and it gives me huge satisfaction to be able to help writers in a measurable way. — Victoria Strauss

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another; rather, it teaches us to abide with the fact that, in their own way, all things are true, and helps us, in the face of this terrifying knowledge, continually push ourselves in the direction of Open the Hell Up. — George Saunders

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean. — Gregory David Roberts

The real sin ma'am, in my mind lies in thinking of ever wedding with a man you don't love honest and true. — Thomas Hardy

The love of one's life was never that which you wished for or hoped for or forgot or lost or mistook; it was the partner you spent your long days with ... — Kameron Hurley

I write about the scariest monsters: The ones inside us all. And the ones that want to eat what is inside us all. — Aaron Marcusson

I functioned as a movement theologian, continuously shifting from movement to movement toward whatever new idea i thought might seem to be an acceptable modernization of Christianity. This required me to be constantly on the move, networking, editing, writing, strategizing and serving as an information adviser for student movement leaders. This was admittedly a massive departure from classic Christianity, which I recognize but ignored. If theology require reasoning out of God's self-disclosure, I was certainly not doing that
rather the opposite. — Thomas C. Oden

The glorious riches of God are inexhaustible. — Lailah Gifty Akita