Offertories Quotes & Sayings

We are smart enough to realise that we are stupid, and stupid enough to make the problem of becoming smarter hard. — Anders Sandberg

I need to learn how to rely on myself to stay strong because I'm the only one I can trust. — Colleen Hoover

I feel like my style is very much androgynous. It's rock, chic, like casual wear, but then on the flip side to that, being that it's so androgynous, it'll either be skinny jeans and a leather jacket, or if I'm doing a red carpet or event, I'll completely flip that and be wearing a suit or a dress. — Ruby Rose

Things external to her may have their own weight and dimension: but within inside us she gives them such measures as she wills: death is terrifying to Cicero, desirable to Cato, indifferent to Socrates. Health, consciousness, authority, knowledge, beauty and their opposites doff their garments as they enter the soul and receive new vestments, coloured with qualities of her own choosing: brown or green; light or dark; bitter or sweet, deep or shallow, as it pleases each of the individual souls, who have not agreed together on the truth of their practices, rules or ideas. Each soul is Queen in her own state. So let us no longer seek excuses from the external qualities of anything, the responsibility lies within ourselves. Our good or our bad depends on us alone. So let us make our offertories and our vows to ourselves not to Fortune: she has no power over our behaviour, on the contrary our souls drag Fortune in their train and mould her to their own idea. — Michel De Montaigne

When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up and have to apologize to the bullying hostess of a talk show. — Jamaica Kincaid

I've seen men in $5,000 suits urinate in public fountains here. Las Vegas is the best place on earth. — Alissa Nutting

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked. — Harold Pinter

Heaven is beautiful because it is the expression of that which is the perfection of beauty. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

It's not the most normal life in the world, but I screw up plenty of times to be a normal teenager. — Mila Kunis

He shrugs. We were young back then and swept up in the excitement that we could throw out the old ways and rebuild the world. I'm older now and understand. Our plans weren't thorough enough back then. This time they are. — Richard Kadrey

Men raised in a culture of blood revenge do not change in a day. — Geraldine Brooks

I like the moment when I break a man's ego — Bobby Fischer

The weather wouldn't settle down. It would rain cats and dogs, then stop, then drip awhile, then stop while it made up its mind what to do next. — Glendon Swarthout