Misfire At Idle Quotes & Sayings

No one leaped to his feet to rescue her. I think we all knew Grace well enough to understand that she would prefer to rescue herself from this predicament, and we were right. — Jennifer Finney Boylan

The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe
because no one else could be such a fool. — Thomas Sowell

While the government is "studying" and funding and organizing its Big Thought, nothing is being done. But the citizen who is willing to Think Little, and, accepting the discipline of that, to go ahead on his own, is already solving the problem. A man who is trying to live as a neighbor to his neighbors will have a lively and practical understanding of the work of peace and brotherhood, and let there be no mistake about it - he is doing that work ...
A man who is willing to undertake the discipline and the difficulty of mending his own ways is worth more to the conservation movement than a hundred who are insisting merely that the government and the industries mend their ways.
(pg.87, "Think Little") — Wendell Berry

A different understanding of the imago Dei gained popularity in the twentieth century, though it had predecessors in earlier church history. This view locates the imago Dei in the commission of God for humans to "have dominion" over the earth. This view is sometimes referred to as the functional view of the imago Dei, for it locates the essence of our divine image in what we as humans are called to do. As God is the loving Lord of the entire cosmos, humans are called to be the loving lords of the entire earth. A — Gregory A. Boyd

"Really, there are two types of people who go bowling. There are people who really, really love bowling. Then there are the people that are like: wouldn't it be hysterical if we went bowling?" — Jim Gaffigan

If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again. — Will Carleton

Despite my growing fear, I still want to be right where I am, trapped in the merciless arms of a killer. — J.A. Redmerski

I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me. — Thom Mayne

You don't have to watch many wildlife documentaries to know that the herd doesn't accept the lone straggler. — Holly Goldberg Sloan