Imperfect Vessels Quotes & Sayings

I wondered why no one had shown the common courtesy to tell me to put on shoes, and why was I out there in my underwear, chicken legs exposed to the world? — John Green

History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery. — Robert Higgs

And when James asked what color God was, she said, God is the color of water. — James McBride

Almost every cartoonist, when he's sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl to the expression that he's drawing. But when I would write a story - I know it's going to sound almost ridiculous and infantile - I would, in a way, start living it. — Al Jaffee

He pushed up his visor and came over to me. He put his shield arm around me and pulled me close. This new skin of his was cold and hard, and I was glad of it. But I wished I could take him by the hair and dip him in metal, so that he was covered all over, for I didn't like the chinks, the way a dagger could find the back of his knee and hamstring him, or a sword find its way through the mail under his arm. We are imperfect vessels. We leak so easily. — Sarah Micklem

Anger is the fluid that love bleeds when it gets cut. — C.S. Lewis

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

She had never asked herself whether it cost him any effort. Any effort to stand between Will and the world, protecting each one of them from the other. — Cassandra Clare

Teach a child stress management and how to deal with his anger from very young and you will have one very successful child. — Timothy Pina

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last. — David Amram

The biblical model is that God deliberately chooses imperfect vessels - those who have been wounded, those with physical or emotional limitations. Then he prepares them to serve and sends them out with their weakness still evident, so that his strength can be made perfect in that weakness. — Christine Caine

When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things. — John Lydon