Lacerations With Stitches Quotes & Sayings

The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right. — Eugene H. Peterson

Life went on, no matter how much you dared the sun not to rise again. — Karen White

I've been impressed by the extent to which one gets sentenced by one's own sentences. One explores certain things in play and then in a strange way they become commitments which one has to live. I have gained a deep respect for the demonic power of the word. Words are not idle. They have consequences. — Norman O. Brown

After a dozen deaths, you learn not to care. After a hundred, you can't even if you wanted to. — C.L. Werner

I'm more spiritual than I am religious. I don't go to church; I go to the beach. — Paula Deen

Write your own music and write frequently. Go to as many live shows as you can as well (of bands you enjoy of course). You can learn a lot watching other performers. — Dia Frampton

The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary. Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone. — Boyd K. Packer

Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing. — Stanley Spencer

We will never know exactly how many women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Civil War. At the close of the hostilities, it was estimated that approximately 400 women had managed to enlist, but this number is almost certainly too low. — Jim Murphy

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists. — Havelock Ellis

Intelligence is being intelligent enough to know you're not so intelligent as you intelligently once thought. — Carroll Bryant