Obscurely Wrong Quotes & Sayings

The author chuckles at the resistance to using a prepared, written liturgy in prayer. He compares it to being unwilling to dress in any clothing we did not make ourselves, or being unwilling to drive a car we did not construct entirely by ourselves. — N. T. Wright

I am grateful to be alive. — Amy Leigh Mercree

You are the authority and the gatekeeper of your own life. — Bryant McGill

Hope takes never ceasing
to be amazed...

wearing
your soul on your sleeve...

holding
your breath, waiting to hear
"i love you, too..."

believing
that tomorrow could be better than today...
that you'll get a second chance...
that you'll make a difference...
that you matter. — Mark D. Sanders

When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only partially right, and often quite wrong; but perhaps he is never so altogether wrong and pig-headed and utterly reprehensible as he is represented to be by those who add the possession of prejudices to the other almost insuperable difficulties of understanding him. — Jane Addams

Never think of results, just do! — G.I. Gurdjieff

The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting. — Mason Cooley

When I find something that I really like and I can get it off, then I put my time and energy into that because it is a lot of work. — Charlize Theron

At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant: all that mattered was the hum of the bees and the chirp of birdsong, the way the sun gleamed on the edge of a blue wildflower, the distant bleat and clink of grazing goats. — Alison Croggon

Where there is equality there can be sanity. — George Orwell

You can't give what you don't have. To lead people in a better way, mingle with them in body. But in knowledge, be far ahead of them! — Israelmore Ayivor

I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It's the same. You know, you're really no different than anybody else who's lost somebody they adored. — Lee Radziwill

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars. — Barbara Brown Taylor

Vladimir Putin shot out of obscurity in 1999 by exploiting growing nostalgia for the USSR, fueled by the disappointment, uncertainty and crisis that brought Yeltsin's reform era to a shuddering halt. Once in power the following year, Putin set about building an authoritarian regime whose control would expand for more than a decade, until soaring corruption on top of another economic downturn - a much smaller one, triggered by the global financial crisis of 2008 - prompted another backlash. — Gregory Feifer