Otjen Gendelman Quotes & Sayings

People who pass their lives in reading and acquire their wisdom from books are like those who learn about a country from travel descriptions: they can impart information about a great number of things, but at bottom they possess no connected, clear, thorough knowledge of what the country is like. On the other hand, people who pass their lives in thinking are like those who have visited the country themselves: they alone are really familiar with it, possess connected knowledge of it and are truly at home in it. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Do you want to make a tamale with peanut butter and jelly? Go Ahead! Somebody will eat it. — Bobby Flay

After several interactions in which he questioned my authority and pretended not to hear me speaking, it was clear he was my type — Lena Dunham

Just so you know, if it comes down to cannibalism, you get eaten first. — Jay Kristoff

When was the last time we took a verse like, "Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving" (Eph. 5:4) and even began to try to apply this to our conversation, our movies, our YouTube clips, our television and commercial intake? What does it mean that there must not be even a hint of immorality among the saints (v. 3)? It must mean something. In our sex-saturated culture, I would be surprised if there were not at least a few hints of immorality in our texts and tweets and inside jokes. And what about our clothes, our music, our flirting, and the way we talk about people who aren't in the room? — Kevin DeYoung

Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee. — James I Of Scotland

the sleeve slipping over the edge of the rung. I steadied myself, fed more of the sleeve through it, until I had a complete loop through the rung. That work shirt was my favorite one, Gap, one hundred — Kathy Hogan Trocheck

When they give you a choice, it's a selection of handpicked possibilities they have prescreened. No matter what you decide, the core choice has already been made, and you weren't involved in it. — Ilona Andrews

Despair gives courage to a coward. — Thomas Fuller