Maryon Piese Quotes & Sayings

The way I see it Bill Elliott is just another way of saying fast — Harry Melling

Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. — Doris Lessing

Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of such idolatry - but not if it means holding faith in the right way, that is, not holding it at all but being held by God, in love and service. Theology is idolatry if it means what we say about God instead of letting ourselves be addressed by what God has to say to us. Faith is idolatrous if it is rigidly self-certain but not if it is softened in the waters of 'doubt. — John D. Caputo

I was very sorry to hear about your losses. Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they'll be more frightened of marriage than they are presently. (Olenna Tyrell to Sansa Stark — George R R Martin

Civilization is faces, "appearances": when these collapse, civilization collapses as well. — Joyce Carol Oates

Where's the creativity, gods? I didn't see why Death couldn't have pink. Or purple. What if he liked sparkles? — Jaymin Eve

The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew — Bart D. Ehrman

Grace is a sacred strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm not that interested in fashion ... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life. — Bruce Oldfield

There are plenty of people, in need of our attention, who have very little with which to repay us. But I feel that we are well within our rights if we cultivate the acquaintance of persons whom we have discovered to be in possession of specialized talents in the field of character-building. One such acquaintance may serve as a stimulant to us; another a sedative. One man laughs his fears and frets away and another growls at them. It is fortunate for us if we can recognize the exact effect that other people have on us. Then we know when to seek or avoid them. — Lloyd C. Douglas

An altered look about the hills;
A Tyrian light the village fills;
A wider sunrise in the dawn;
A deeper twilight on the lawn;
A print of a vermilion foot;
A purple finger on the slope;
A flippant fly upon the pane;
A spider at his trade again;
An added strut in chanticleer;
A flower expected everywhere ... — Emily Dickinson

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long. — Buffalo Bill

What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning. — Rollo May