Justlisten Quotes & Sayings

He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against a man with a club. He had learned the lesson, and in all his after life he never forgot it. That club was a revelation. It was his introduction to the reign of primitive law, and he met the introduction halfway. The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect; and while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused. — Jack London

This is how memories are made ... by going with the flow. — Amanda Bynes

Citizens may recoil from paying for the news, he noted, because they see it as a natural right. But in the absence of consumer coin, the media must be fueled by advertisers seeking consumers and investors pursuing profit. Novelty and drama pay to keep the presses rolling, and so the "news" that supposedly informs reason becomes the dog wagged by its own tail. — Brooke Gladstone

God communicates himself to the understanding of the creature, in giving him the knowledge of his glory; and to the will of the creature, in giving him holiness, consisting primarily in the love of God: and in giving the creature happiness, chiefly consisting in joy in God.108 These are the sum of that emanation of divine fullness called in Scripture, the glory of God. The first part of this glory is called truth, the latter, grace, — John Piper

If you're honest with yourself, you're going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance is to the Republican party. — Vincent Bugliosi

As for opinions, if they're not pleasant they'd better be kept to yourself. I learned that early in life and forget it every day. — Kate Langley Bosher

And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it's even more difficult when it seems like it's the only thing. — Sarah Dessen

That illusion of young romantic love to which women look forever forward and forever back. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. — Harriet Martineau

It does not matter where you are - from this very moment on you choose the direction of your life. — Toni Sorenson

For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Hitler spoke at length about the impact of his own personal Catholic faith on his political activism, noting that it was his religious convictions in particular that compelled him to be a ruthless anti-Semite. — Derek Hastings

The daemonic-divine object may appear to the mind an object of horror and dread, but at the same time it is no less something that allures with a potent charm, and the creature, who trembles before it, utterly cowed and cast down, has always at the same time the impulse to turn to it, nay even to make it somehow his own. — Rudolf Otto

More people have done good in the name of God than any other way — Dennis Prager