Gashed White Matter Quotes & Sayings

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library. — Bill Russell

His head was thrown back, his chest
heaving, and the look on his face was more indicative of pain than
pleasure.
Rosemary snatched her fingers back, certain she'd
misunderstood the technique somehow.
But he whimpered piteously and she realized, no, she couldn't
have misunderstood. Because (a) she was a genius, and (b) it just
wasn't that complicated — Louisa Edwards

God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad. — Rick Warren

When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times. — Feisal Abdul Rauf

In a certain sense all men are historians. — Thomas Carlyle

He who retains unchangeable in his heart the rule of the truth which he received by means of baptism will doubtless recognise the names, the expressions, and the parables taken from the Scriptures [by the gnostics], but will by no means acknowledge the blasphemous use which these men make of them. — Irenaeus Of Lyons

Part of me still loves. More of me doesn't. — James Frey

In a society that says, "Put yourself last," self-love and self-acceptance are almost revolutionary. If — Brene Brown

It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it. — Karl Pilkington

No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances. — Aleksandr Voinov

Humor helps people open up. — Roger Von Oech

I sometimes fear that we have so redefined conversion in terms of human decisions and have so removed any necessity of the experience of God's Spirit, that many people think they are saved when in fact they only have Christian ideas in their head not spiritual power in their heart. — John Piper

I want to draw you a floorplan of my head and heart. I want to give directions, helpful hints. What you'll be looking for. — Sara Quin

In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches. — O. Henry