Indentation Block Quotes & Sayings

The essence of sin is "I do not want to have God in my life." And the essence of God's judicial wrath is to give us what we have asked for. — Timothy Keller

With the founding of Denishawn, Ted Shawn stated the artistic creed which was to guide the school, the company and, indeed, his whole life in dance. — Walter Terry

If people could fall apart, why couldn't they fall back together? — Jessica Khoury

[Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it." — Gilbert K. Chesterton

In part, it's so difficult to come up with something original, to come up with a character nowadays. If you created a globetrotting adventurer, he'd be compared to Indiana Jones. If you created a super spy, he'd be compared to James Bond. — Marc Guggenheim

Watching the Archer brothers eat was like watching a twister blow through the room. Meredith sat with her elbows tucked close to her side, afraid to do more than occasionally raise her fork to her mouth for fear of being rammed by a reaching arm or thumped by a tossed biscuit. The venison steak was overdone, the beans gluey, and the biscuits were dry as unbuttered toast, yet the Archers attacked their food like a pack of dogs fighting over a fresh kill. No one spoke. They just ate. — Karen Witemeyer

I couldn't believe it. I had broken the law simply by not wearing clothes. — Matt Haig

Some revolutions resemble restorations, at least at first glance. — Luigina Sgarro

To submit, to surrender, to seek, that is all there is. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I was so busy planning for tomorrow that I had nothing done today. — Keri L. Sparks

The linchpin is an individual who can walk into chaos and create order, someone who can invent, connect, create, and make things happen. Every worthwhile institution has indispensable people who make differences like these. — Seth

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already. — Josiah Royce

Excellence is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle.