Flatly Without Dissembling Quotes & Sayings

Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination. — Joseph De Maistre

Here's to our wives and girlfriends ... may they never meet! — Groucho Marx

Poetry vs. Prose

One difference of course
is the length of the line.
And some people suppose
that prose doesn't rhyme.

But I have a theory
that's more like a question:
If prose is lengthy fiction
is poetry short suggestion? — Daniel Klawitter

One of the things that personally kept me in music was that it has always been my passion,my vision and change. No matter how far I may think I can go without it, it always tend to slap me right back in the face! So why not do what naturally fills your soul. Music completes me. — Mandisa

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do. — Erin Morgenstern

Chat to the ghosts! That's what I do! — Lee Ryan

Superman when he goes after someone is essentially not trying to beat them, he is trying to save them from themselves ... You're looking at a God who walks amongst men! — Max Landis

Schoolchildren don't normally learn this poem about Columbus's second voyage to Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic today): "In fourteen hundred and ninety-five, sixteen hundred people he kidnapped alive." Columbus — Brian D. McLaren

Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin. — Brigham Young

Maybe the rules are wrong! — Kiera Cass

If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish — Lenny Bruce

Political war was to be the rule, not the exception, in American life. "The country is so totally given up to the spirit of party, that not to follow blindfold the one or the other is an inexpiable offense," Adams wrote during Jefferson's first term.12 — Jon Meacham

She made him feel like a normal person. She forgave him for who he was. — Robert Repino

Where is privacy, if not in the mind? — Annie Dillard

If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything. — Peter Kreeft