Notionally Quotes & Sayings

Talk without effort is nothing. — Maria W. Stewart

But I promise you ... this country will never be destroyed from the outside. Not by any ideology or foreign power ... and certainly not by you. — Seth Grahame-Smith

In one of the tents, Julian is sleeping. And in another: Alex — Lauren Oliver

The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true. — Nicholson Baker

So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Ground which can be freely traversed by both sides is called accessible. — Sun Tzu

and were greatly distressed that their only son must be taken from them. We felt a spirit of prayer for him, and earnestly besought the Lord to spare his life. We believed that he would get well, although to all appearances there was no possibility of his recovery. It was a powerful season. My husband raised him in his arms, and exclaimed, 'You will not die, but live!' We believed that God would be glorified in his recovery. We left Dartmouth, and were absent about eight days. When we returned, the sick boy came out to meet us. He had gained four pounds in flesh. We found the household rejoicing in God for his wonderful work. — James White

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us. — Waylon Jennings

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. — Phillips Brooks

If you don't get a laugh I immediately think it's somebody else's fault. You can always blame the material. But when it's just yourself and songs that you've picked up because you love them and stories that you've written yourself and patter you think is really funny if that tanks, there's no one to blame it on. God knows, I try! — Jason Graae

The ways of God and government and girls are all mysterious, and it is not given to mortal man to understand them. — Robert A. Heinlein

Notionally a left-wing movement, the Anti-Germans were born after the collapse of the Berlin wall. While most Germans rejoiced at the end of the Cold War, the Anti-Germans feared that a united Germany might lead to a fourth Reich - and a return of anti-Semitism. — Luke Harding