Misapplied Bible Verses Quotes & Sayings

Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you. — Carla H. Krueger

It is not my design to teach the method that everyone must follow in order to use his reason properly, but only to show the way in which I have tried to use my own. — Rene Descartes

Forgive me, father, I am not certain what my own wishes are. I shall always take pleasure in study, how could it be otherwise? But I do not believe that my life will be limited to study. A man's wishes may not always determine his destiny, his mission; perhaps there are other predetermining factors. — Hermann Hesse

I had felt no hatred in all the years when they rejected me. If my work was new, I had to give them time to learn, if I took pride in being first to break a trail to a height of my own, I had no right to complain if others were slow to follow. — Ayn Rand

Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains. — Patrick Ness

Put him, blindfold, into a closed room anywhere in the world, and he could tell if Sybilla was with him. It had to do, perhaps, with her scent. To him, it was more: a breath from the sweetness and peace of his childhood; a sense of light; of understanding; of loving amusement; an air from the flower-filled walls of pairidza.

Nothing, even now, took from him that first moment as he stood on her threshold. Until the second moment came, and with it his years and his memory. He closed the door, and then turned calmly and looked for her. — Dorothy Dunnett

The idea of changing and fixing the problem of how news is presented on the Internet has been recognized for a long time. — Ezra Klein

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known. — Lord Chesterfield

I want you to write yourself into history because no matter what history books say, even you are a part of it. — Nnedi Okorafor