Obverse Side Quotes & Sayings

Death always seemed so easy, I would read stories full of brave warriors and assassins and how they would deliver speedy deaths, and then walk away. They'd go to the taverns and drink with their friends, or go home to their lovers. They never said anything about how they felt afterwards. They took a life, and that was that. So easy. So . . . normal. And yet I don't think I'm ever going to forget how it felt to kill that man. It's one thing to cause a death, but another to deliver it. With hardly any pressure, or thought, I managed it. And I felt every inch of the knife sliding into him. I think I always will. They don't tell you that part. — Melinda Salisbury

He smelled the same. Like metal and aftershave. Like decade old memories. — Jackie Bushore

There have been so few decent films involving Negroes that right away everybody expects every film to do everything. But when you make a flick, there are maybe two things you're trying to put into that flick. You can put the other things in another time. — Jim Brown

If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have faith in their own religion. — Michael Pitt

Day by day, morning by morning, begin your walk with Him in the calm trust that God is at work in everything ... It is your personal business, as a discipline of your heart, to learn to be peaceful and safe in God in every situation ... Remember, friend, where your real living is going on. In your thinking, in your reacting, in your heart of hearts - here is where your walk with God begins and continues. So when you start to move into trusting Him, stay there. Don't wander out again into worry and doubt! — Anne Ortlund

For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use. — Michel De Montaigne

Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication in the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves. — Eric Hoffer

But hatred was really not an emotion which he could sustain for any length of time, unless it was the obverse side of love. — John Le Carre

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it. — Paulo Coelho

Nature has always been and always will be, as far as my tiny brain can understand, miraculous. Except, nature won't last because the world won't. — Patrick Downes

Walt reorganized the fickleness of audiences and the challenge of always providing something new. For me, this great entrepreneurial adventure was an exposure to 'yes if' consulting as a more useful format than 'no because'...'Yes if' was the language of an enabler, pointing to what needed to be done to make the possible plausible. Walt liked this language. 'No because' is the language of a deal killer. 'Yes if' is the approach of a deal maker. Creative people thrive on 'yes if'. — Harrison Price

Don't just write a "To Do" list. Write a "To Be" list. — Karen Salmansohn

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib