Lily Loveless Quotes & Sayings

The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage.
[Lat., Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non quiret.] — Quintus Ennius

Christianity can be described as a theological materialism: It is that which transforms our material existence. If our faith does not throw us into the arms of the world, if it does not lead to our experience of responsibility, love, celebration, and our commitment to transformation, then, whatever we call it, we have nothing but an empty shell. — Peter Rollins

Proud folk separate themselves from others, judging them ... To criticize others we must hold them from us, at arm's length so to speak. And then before you know where you are you've pushed them away and you're the poorer. — Elizabeth Goudge

Nikki - "What does that mean?"
Cole - "It means I am your only sorce of survival."
His face broke out into a wide grin.
"I wish Gavin were here. I'd have him give me a drum roll. — Brodi Ashton

You have bits of canvas that are unpainted and you have these thick stretcher bars. So you see that a painting is an object; that it's not a window into something - you're not looking at a landscape, you're not looking at a portrait, but you're looking at a painting. It's basically: A painting is a painting is a painting. And it's what Frank Stella said famously: What you see is what you see. — Frank Stella

Our hope is that the Lord will intervene in our lives, but if not, we will discover whether our faith is real, or only something we hold onto when it appears to be working for our benefit. — John Bytheway

We kill more than 50 billion non-human animals every year in order to eat them, — Magnus Vinding

My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!' — Carmen Electra

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty. — Henry Ward Beecher

We all lose sometimes. We fail to get what we want. Friends and loved ones leave. We make a decision we regret. We try our hardest and come up short. It's not the losing that defines us. It's how we lose. It's what we do afterward. — Scott Jurek

When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility between government and the concept of religious belief itself. — Ronald Reagan

No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain. — Graham Greene

I die a little more, still in silence, paralysed by you, in fear, in pain. — Poppet

To test a man's ego, simply ask him a complicated question. A good person will never be afraid to admit they don't know the answer to something. And only when a man has fully dismantled his ego, can he begin to be truly good. — Suzy Kassem