Impatient Optimist Quotes & Sayings

You need to get far enough away from abusive people to be able to fence your property against further invasion. And then you need to own the treasures you find in your soul. — Henry Cloud

We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word ... Their powerful gospel put an end to such barbaric evils as infanticide and bloody gladiatorial contests. Finally, they captured the Roman Empire for Jesus Christ. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The comics I read as a kid were all about guys in tights. But here was a guy who wore a fedora. He fought crime like they did in Marvel and DC, but he did it in the real world. I had just turned 12 when I met the Spirit and it was a strange coincidence. At the same time I discovered girls I fell out of love with guys in tights. — Frank Miller

It's a weapon, I understand?"
"In the wrong hands, all tools are weapons. In the right hands, everything is a weapon, or nothing is. — Neil Gaiman

There are who are so pitiful over the poor man, that, finding they cannot lift him beyond the reach of the providence which intends there shall always be the poor on the earth, will do for him nothing at all. "Where is the use?" they say. They treat their money like their children, and would not send it into a sad house. If they had themselves no joys but their permanent ones, where would the hearts of them be? — George MacDonald

Be a light of hope in the landscapes of a soul. — Angelica Hopes

Then he died; but he had neither burial nor tomb, for so fiery was his spirit that as it sped his body fell to ash, and was borne away like smoke; and his likeness has never again appeared in Arda, — J.R.R. Tolkien

Cats were not, in her experience, an animal with much soul. Prosaic, practical little creatures as a general rule. It would suit her very well to be thought catlike. — Gail Carriger

If you hang with 9 broke people, you'll be the 10th. — John Hope Bryant

her style was very much that of someone who had picked up only what was most effective and thrown everything else away. This wasn't the way someone fought if they cared about appearances. This was the way someone fought if they wanted to survive and to win. — L.G. Estrella

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays. — Oscar Wilde

It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness. — Billy Gibbons

The right line of conduct is the same for both sexes, though the manner in which it is pursued, may somewhat vary, and be accommodated to the strength or weakness of the different travelers. — Fanny Burney