Lodged A Complaint Quotes & Sayings

I feel an obligation toward God to be as honest as I can. I'm human, sir, and I'll admit the Truth can be painful at times, and even a little elusive, but... as best as I can, I must speak the Truth and address things as they are. I don't feel I have any right to take the Truth and cut it up, rearrange it, select what I want and delete what I want just so it'll align with my politics or my Accounting Department." - John Barrett Jr. — Frank E. Peretti

Hear that quiet, man?' he said. 'That quiet - just listen. There's your moral. — Tim O'Brien

I woke up with Mac smothering my face. I don't know what it is about cats and the whole "the rest of the bed is not good enough for me, I want to be where your head is" action, but fortunately, he's cute, so I let him live. — Kate Danley

[Ted] Cruz railed against his fellow senators for not appreciating the risk that Obamacare would destroy healthcare for America's families ... Cruz then lodged a more general complaint against his Senate colleagues who, he said, seemed more concerned with "cocktail parties in Washington, D.C." than with their constituents. Referring to calls that he said were pouring in from around the country, begging legislators to resist and defund, Cruz noted, "It is apparently an imposition on some members of this body for their constituents to pick up the phone and ask for assistance." As I heard him say that, I picked up the phone and called Cruz's local constituent service office in Houston. "Could someone there give me information about how to enroll in Obamacare?" I asked, when I was put on the phone with one of the senator's case workers. "No. We don't support the bill, and think it's a bad idea," I was told. — Steven Brill

The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page. — Jonathan Messinger

If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence when it becomes a burden. It is the only way that we can then be useful to society, by setting an example which, if imitated, would preserve every one his chance for happiness in life, and would effectually free him from all danger or misery. — David Hume

Hast seen the white whale? — Herman Melville

Unmet desires are the source of most of the conflict and many of the struggles in our lives. When we don't get what we want, or when and how we want it, life can get pretty ugly. — Kurt W. Bubna

Be direct and sure of the path you tread, but not so sure that you pass the paths better suited to your feet, brother. — Erica Cameron

Jocelyn's stomach lodged another complaint with the management regarding the length of time since breakfast. — Heidi Schulz

Dirk Moeller didn't know if he could fart his way into a major diplomatic incident. But he was ready to find out. — John Scalzi

He could not endure a prolonged contact with another body. It smacked of danger. It made him frantic. He must be away, free, on his own legs, touching no living thing. — Jack London

But woe is me! too early I attended
A youthful suit- it was to gain my grace-
O, one by nature's outwards so commended
That maidens' eyes stuck over all his face.
Love lacked a dwelling and made him her place;
And when in his fair parts she did abide,
She was new lodged and newly deified — William Shakespeare

That all you got...Bub? — Joss Whedon

The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned. — R.C. Sproul

We must ask where we are and whither we are tending. — Abraham Lincoln

Christianity in the West, opens up a perspective of depth into what it means to be a self. And that depth of the self is something that is experienced in the sight of God. So that the great thinkers of self and subjectivity are Paul and Augustine. They look at the self from the perspective of God and they find themselves wretched and interesting. Constituted by conflictual desires. — Simon Critchley