Niall Osullivan And Friends Quotes & Sayings

An individualist - a man who has no intention of ever exploring the goals of others because he has no intention of compromising with his own - may become: (a) a hermit of limited goals, (b) a tyrant surrounded by slaves with rebellion in his future and covert hostility in his present. — Donald Kingsbury

There are good ways and bad ways to get my attention. Whacking on my ego with a crowbar will get my attention, sure, but it's not going to leave me well disposed to the messenger. — Charles Stross

Not to take one's own suffering seriously, to make light of it or even to laugh at it, is considered good manners in our culture. — Alice Miller

We have far too many kids. At one time in the playpen there was standing-room only. It looked like a bus stop for midgets. It used to get so damp in there, we'd have a rainbow above it. — Phyllis Diller

All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives, — Philip Larkin

Jesus' words are inseparable from his person. He himself is the message he proclaims. — George Eldon Ladd

But to reject, marginalize, trivialize, or be suspicious of the sacraments (and quasi-sacramental acts such as lighting a candle, bowing, washing feet, raising hands in the air, crossing oneself and so forth) on the grounds that such things CAN be superstitious or idolatrous or that some people might suppose they are putting God in their debt, is like rejecting sexual relations in marriage on the grounds that it's the same act that in other circumstances constitutes immorality. — N. T. Wright

If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essence developing, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age will stimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery. — Erik Erikson

I, sir, I just like to work. I'm humble. — Bruce McCulloch

Healing is messy and fluid and often unpredictable. I can't manufacture my own healing. It usually takes longer than I think, runs deeper than I wished, and involves more areas of my life than I ever imagined. But once I come through it on the other side, healing not only offers the closure I thought I wanted, it comes with a wholeness, wellness, and restoration that closure lacks. — Emily P. Freeman

You cannot run a multimillion-dollar business like you would a lemonade stand. — Mark Miller

We have to forgive to survive in this labyrinth [of suffering] — John Green

Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake. — Paul Gibbons