Outpointing Quotes & Sayings

We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it. — Flannery O'Connor

'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?' — Adam McKay

The door snicked shut. — Madeline Miller

When a great moment arises, it is great to be right there! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy ... — M.F.K. Fisher

Spirit is strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself. — Lauren London

Resistence won't work, because it is
no free energy, at all."
Petra Hermans
September 26, 2016 — Petra Hermans

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want. — William Tecumseh Sherman

No matter how many wrong turns we've taken and no matter how many detours we've been down, it's God's grace that gets us back onto the parade route. — Mark Batterson

The real development I've seen of people in organizations, especially in big ones, comes from their being volunteers in a nonprofit organization - where you have responsibility, you see results, and you quickly learn what your values are. There is no better way to understand your strengths and discover where you belong than to volunteer in a nonprofit. That is probably the great opportunity for the social sector - and especially in its relationship to business. — Peter Drucker

Disease is a disturbed condition, not a thing or entity. — Daniel D. Palmer