Glozed Quotes & Sayings

Tomes / Of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance — Percy Bysshe Shelley

When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept them from picking up what I thought were obvious signals. — James Fallows

She was clever, and beautiful, and hard as burnished bronze. — Sharon Cameron

But believing something to be true has nothing to do with whether it is true. — Marcus J. Borg

Fight hard, fight fair and persevere — Edith Nourse Rogers

Having someone to love and hold, to make you feel 'whole' and not alone, is worth every damn argument ever to be had. — Auliq Ice

Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations. — Thomas Szasz

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there. — Ben Mendelsohn

Learning is a consequence of thinking. — David Perkins

When we choose to follow the way of Jesus, we will sometimes find ourselves in situations where we have to choose between silence and integrity. Our silence may keep the peace and protect us from the consequences of offending those in power over us, but we will lose part of ourselves. Standing against injustice and the abuse of power demands courage. It will often cost us dearly, but it will also demonstrate our integrity and our commitment to God's alternative way of living. If we answer God's call to participate in God's plan, we will have to prepare ourselves for these conflicts and learn to experience God's life and grace in the midst of them. — Upper Room

By the late Stalin period, the right of complaint was so thoroughly a part of this political culture, in which civil law and litigation were frequently meaningless, that there were special mailboxes in the concentration camps of the Gulag labeled, "To the Supreme Soviet", "To the Council of Ministers", "To the Minister of Internal Affairs", and "To the Prosecutor General". — Lynne Viola

When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?' — Nicolas Roeg

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking. — Oliver Goldsmith