Openquery Quotes & Sayings

There was one time they knocked me out and laid me in front of my mother's door. And in order for my mother not to be shocked they readjusted my clothes and they saw that nothing was rumpled and I looked very comfortable next to the apartment door, so when my mother would open the door it wouldn't be that much of a shock. — Jack Kirby

China is referred to as the 'dragon' and India as an 'elephant'. But we are not an elephant, we are a 'beehive'. — Rahul Gandhi

It is the deepest desire of my heart to have every member of the Church worthy to enter the temple. — Howard W. Hunter

I've read so many stories online about how tragedy brings people together, how hard times encourage bravery and sacrifice, how a crisis can turn ordinary folks into heroes. But what about the opposite, when something horrible happens and it strips us bare, exposing weaknesses we didn't even know we had. What about when tragedy makes people worse? — Paula Stokes

When the outside intent (other than the intent of Pure Soul, Parbhaav) stops, he attains enlightened bliss of the Self (samadhi). — Dada Bhagwan

I have news for you, there is no Superman (it's up to us.) — Tom Mboya

I'm not somebody who believes in evil. — Karin Slaughter

Everyone looks to an artist for something more than just the music, and that message of being comfortable in my own skin is number one for me. — Lizzo

Constance could put names to all the growing things, but I was content to know them by their way and place of growing, and their unfailing offers of refuge. — Shirley Jackson

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. — Denis Diderot

There are nonreaders, of course. I knew a man in his nineties who, when he learned that I was a writer, admitted to me that he had tried to read a book, once, long before I was born, but he had been unable to see the point of it, and had never tried again. I asked him if he remembered the name of the book, and he told me, in the manner of someone who tried to eat a snail once and did not care for it, and who does not need to remember the breed of the snail, that one was much like another, surely. — Neil Gaiman

Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

This is typical of defectors. They look at Jesus as the one who's going to solve their daily dilemmas, fix their lives, meet their needs and desires, and make them rich. Try to sell the gospel on that basis, and people will come to you for all the wrong reasons. You cannot call people to Christ because it's the thing to do and everybody's doing it. You can't call people to Christ to get swell miracles or have their lives straightened out. This is the lie of the health-wealth-prosperity gospel and the felt-needs gospel, and all it does is draw people in who soon become disillusioned. As Jesus said in John 18:36, "My kingdom is not of this world. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

That's the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity. — Ricky Gervais