Mistakenness Quotes & Sayings

None of the original love and feel for going on stage is gone. I'm not a true singer. I'm performer, and I need to be on stage. — Mark McGrath

Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love. — Anne Carson

You can't claim to care about the welfare of children if you're shaming other parents for the choices they're making. — Brene Brown

Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical. — Melvin Van Peebles

One rough patch is not the big picture. — Ellen DeGeneres

It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness. — Walter Raleigh

One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I see how wrong somebody is - how shallow it is to look at the Resurrection as a mere, explainable fact - when I see only the mistakenness of others, then I am blinded to their being children of God, who are just as valued and treasured as are those who more nearly agree with me. — Madeleine L'Engle

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
[Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.] — Dante Alighieri

The Guinness book is a very elitist organization. There's nothing scientific about what they do. They just have an office full of people who decide what is a record and what isn't. — Jack White

Examine the road over which the fault has passed.
- Charles Francios Bienvenu Myriel — Victor Hugo

Love me or hate me,I don't care.I'm doing what i like.I'm happy. — Miley Cyrus

It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store. — Hosea Ballou

When my time comes, I would like to know that I have repaid my debt to those who have made a difference in my life. And to be at peace knowing that I stopped the cancer from spreading to those I love. — Dave Pelzer

I get up, and if I feel out of sorts, I'll do some exercises, I'll feed my cat, then I go get my coffee, take a notebook, and write for a couple of hours. — Patti Smith