Overhasty Quotes & Sayings

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours. — George Eliot

I don't think television will ever be perfected until the viewer can press a button and cause whoever is on the screen's head to explode. — Michael O'Donoghue

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics. — Richard Rorty

I find it very difficult just to sit. I would love to learn how to do that with contentment. — Hume Cronyn

If only I'd realized earlier that it never pays to fight evil with evil. But after watching my father die, I'd been consumed with bitterness and had allowed it to lead me astray from what was righteous and pleasing to God. — Jody Hedlund

Sometimes all a parent needs is to know the impossible is actually possible. Hope goes a long way when it comes to autism. Matt gives people hope. — Liz Becker

It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's like that. It's not real. It's unreal, it's all fabrication. To write a song about Obama would suddenly break the spell. — Sufjan Stevens