Matambakan Quotes & Sayings

The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders. — Andy Stanley

I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imagination. — Kurt Vonnegut

we see that the enlightened monopolist can occasionally prove a delusional paranoid. — Tim Wu

Weddings are great, but they mostly end up in marriages and that is the problem. — Radovan Kavicky

There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy. — Jim Butcher

I remember lying down for a nap one day at about 4:00 and walking up at 11:00 the next morning. — April Winchell

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. — Ovid

I just wonder what has been the effect on the human soul of nearly a century in which we have regarded sex on screen as generally better than the sex we actually have, the sex which is, in fact, much better than anything we have seen in the movies, becuase it's sex, after all, and in the movies, it isn't. — Declan Lynch

When I was a child, my parents took my brothers and me to Port-au-Prince during the summer so we could get to know the country of our ancestors. Because Haiti is an island, the beach is everywhere. Haitians are particular, even snobby, about beaches. — Roxane Gay

Really it was a pretty good talk. About the best I could expect from my sociopath amnesiac jerk of an older brother. — Holly Black

Not through thoughts, wisdom, and will does the faith of Christ arise in us, but through an uncommon incomprehensible and hidden operation of the Spirit, which is given by faith in Christ only at the hearing of the Word and without any other work ours. — Roland H. Bainton

I can accept no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God's world by mistake. — Scott Hildreth

He who has the good to his hand and chooses the bad, that the good he complains of may not come to him. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

You make faces when you read, you know. I can always tell when you're reading something happy or suspenseful, or upsetting. Your face shows everything ... whenever you read, it's all reflected there in your face. Like that time you came over, and Andrew was busy studying, so you read In Cold Blood. You were grimacing and flinching through the whole book, as though it was happening personally to you. — Alicia Thompson