Norman Mattoon Thomas Quotes & Sayings

Nobody likes being told who or what they are. — Douglas Coupland

It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with 'Spooks.' No one notices me now. — Matthew Macfadyen

The chief difficulty is that God demands of us that we live by faith: faith in God, God's sovereignty over the future, God's sufficiency for the present; while, on the other hand, the various other gods whom we can serve appeal to us in terms of the things which we can see and the forces which we can calculate. The choice between the life of faith and the life of sight is a choice between a God whom only faith can apprehend and gods whom one has only to see to understand. — Daniel Thambyrajah Niles

Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way? — Judy Holliday

Things didn't really go away. You just learned to push them deeper. — Elizabeth Brundage

Religion is Existential GPS
The mind needs religious myths to navigate the world,
or it gets lost in its own sterility. — Beryl Dov

You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened.
Your co-workers ask
if everything's okay and you tell them
you're just tired.
And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile. — Richard Siken

The curt maneuver forced hearty laughter from all of the fathers in the ballroom, who were delighted by the illusion of danger and the impotence of Nature. — Neal Stephenson

How can the world be seen at such speeds? Where do people need to go so badly they can't realize what is already here, outside the car window? — Daniel Wallace

That very document [Constitution] does little to serve people when Supreme Court decisions are written so that even high-priced lawyers can't figure them out. — Mike DeWine

Just so did they want to crush our friendship, now. It was against the rules. I — Sarah Waters

Some dreams are meant to be broken, so that new ones can be built. — Namrata