Ofbut Quotes & Sayings

If, someday, Julian should be reborn, she wished him well. — L.J.Smith

What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime. — Allen Tate

Microwaves are like winter coats. They warm quickly, people never clean them and they look ugly after a year. — Jim Gaffigan

11I will make my dwelling [56] among you, and my soul shall not abhor you. 12And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people. 13I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect. — Anonymous

It's torture. We're doing four TV spots. Four different bears turn into four different people - four, so we can cover our races. And then fucking Kelly asks if we should make the Asian guy a panda bear. And he was serious. Not only is that racist, panda bears don't hibernate. — Rainbow Rowell

I'm going to try to unite all Americans. — Barack Obama

Being 15, I feel like people want me to go down the Justin Bieber, Cody Simpson sort of genre. — Shawn Mendes

In Elizabethan England you will only find small codpieces. Large ones, stuffed with wool and looking like an erect male member, are out of date — Ian Mortimer

Death smells like birthday cake. — Maggie Stiefvater

In a culture that is becoming ever more story-stupid, in which a representative of the Coca-Cola company can, with a straight face, pronounce, as he donates a collection of archival Coca-Cola commercials to the Library of Congress, that 'Coca-Cola has become an integral part of people's lives by helping to tell these stories,' it is perhaps not surprising that people have trouble teaching and receiving a novel as complex and flawed as Huck Finn, but it is even more urgent that we learn to look passionately and technically at stories, if only to protect ourselves from the false and manipulative ones being circulated among us. — George Saunders

Those who are taken captive by Jesus see mission not merely as a practice preferred by God but as an aspect of his very character. He is mission. Core to understanding God's nature is the realization that God cannot not be about the business of mission. — Michael Frost

As a woman, I have tried to take advantage of the extra access I have in the Muslim world: with Muslim women, for example. Many people underestimate women in that part of the world because, typically, they don't work. — Lynsey Addario

If we do not know ourselves in the waking world, what chance in dreams? — Cormac McCarthy

Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family. — Nancy Kerrigan

I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for an hour through the Bible. But I really do read it with a great deal of pleasure ... which is the last thing I would have suspected. So I read it sometimes as a devotional, but really more, not for fun, but because it's fascinating. — Frederick Buechner

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. — Herbert Hoover