Gesehen Conjugation Quotes & Sayings

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind. — Elias Canetti

I remember my mum explaining to me what adoption meant when I was still at primary school. 'Son,' she said to me, 'you didn't grow under my heart, you grew in it'. — Michael Gove

You see, the secret of the gospel is that we become more spiritually mature when we focus less on what we need to do for God and focus more on all that God has already done for us. The irony of the gospel is that we actually perform better as we grow in our understanding that our relationship with God is based on Christ's performance for us, not our performance for him. — Tullian Tchividjian

I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that. — Rainn Wilson

Sometimes things have to get worse before they can get better — Susane Colasanti

The law must be consonant with life. . . . Mankind is possessed of no greater urge than to try to understand the age-old question: "Who am I$ — Barbara Bisantz Raymond

A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises. — Saul Alinsky

There's a traditional Kenyan prayer: From the cowardice that dares not deal with new truth, from the laziness that is content with half-truth, from the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth, Good Lord, deliver me. — Joni Rodgers

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic. — Elbert Hubbard

If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself. — Timothy Keller

The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep. — Dan Simmons

A book should be made like a watch and sold like a sausage. — Oliverio Girondo

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.' — Mark Twain

If I were asked to name the deadliest subversive force within capitalism
the single greatest source of its waning morality
I should without hesitation name advertising. How else should one identify a force that debases language, drains thought, and undoes dignity? If the barrage of advertising, unchanged in its tone and texture, were devoted to some other purpose
say the exaltation of the public sector
it would be recognized in a moment for the corrosive element that it is. But as the voice of the private sector it escapes this startled notice. I mention it only to point out that a deep source of moral decay for capitalism arises from its own doings, not from that of its governing institutions. — Robert L. Hellbroner