Magical Other Addictions Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to wake up with cops surrounding my bed tonight. — Anthony Jeselnik

I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,' or divine spark within the soul. — Sue Monk Kidd

Please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean. — J.R.R. Tolkien

When you're a restaurant critic, you're not home at night, so breakfast became really important for us. — Ruth Reichl

There is only one Jesus; we can't live a sinless life like He did. — Monica Johnson

Oh! the suspense, the fearful, acute suspense, of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance! — Charles Dickens

Rwanda had presented the world with the most unambiguous case of genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews, and the world sent blankets, beans, and bandages to camps controlled by the killers, apparently hoping that everybody would behave nicely in the future. — Philip Gourevitch

Addictions [ ... ] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were [ ... ] less intelligent than goldfish. — William Gibson

While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the equally important task of construing them in relation to some explanatory conjecture. Similarly the historian has a double duty: both of reporting the past as nearly as possible as it passed or was lived through by men at the time (without doctoring up events to fit later developments or some more "enlightened reading" of them); and second, of interpreting their import in the light of a present hypothesis. — Marie Taylor Collins Swabey

If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do? — Miranda Lambert

What is a friend if not someone you feel close to, someone you like being with, someone you can confide in and share pleasure with.
-Jeremy Malory- — Johanna Lindsey

I know plenty of people who do, who get their holidays paid for and in return have their photographs taken on the beach, but not me. — Max Beesley

Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman. — Seth Godin

Another day in paradise' was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift. — Abraham Verghese

Now we are at war. Great forces have been mobilized and will continue to be. Political alliances are being forged. We do not know how long this conflict will last. We do not know what it will cost in lives and treasure. We do not know the manner in which it will be carried out. It could impact the work of the Church in various ways.
Our national economy has been made to suffer. It was already in trouble, and this has compounded the problem. Many are losing their employment. Among our own people, this could affect welfare needs and also the tithing of the Church. It could affect our missionary program. — Gordon B. Hinckley