Pettifogging Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

Then Cotton quotes Luke 12:48. "To whom much is given, of him God will require the more." Of course there's a catch, Spider-Man. When God is the landlord, Cotton says, "defraud him not of his rent." The price? Obedience. — Sarah Vowell

But since death is inevitable we don't have to deal with it (it'll deal with us when it decides to). What we do have to deal with is the psychic, physical, and fusion diseases wrought during our so-called lives as byproducts of the elemental clash. In other words we're all terminally psychotic and no doctor, hospital, pill, needle, book or guru holds the cure. Because the disease is called life and there is no cure for that but death and death's just part of the set-up designed to keep you terrified and thus in bondage from the cradle to the crypt so ha ha the joke's on you except there's no punchline and the comedian forgot you ever existed as even a comma. — Lester Bangs

I live like a scumbag, but it's cheap. — Mac DeMarco

So I suggest you stick close, pay attention, and avoid breaking the Terrorverse's only commandment: Thou shall not be stupid. — Seth Grahame-Smith

Only a Bush could answer a 'yes' or 'no' question two different ways and be wrong both times. — Bill Maher

Make yourself a priority. Fill yourself up so that you can give more to others. — Oprah Winfrey

The basic idea is to focus on the matchless worth of the Lord God and then get connected to him. — Edward T. Welch

Contrary to previous assumptions, maternal depression can also manifest in a myriad of ways, many far different from what some might consider traditional depressive symptoms, including psychosis, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and other anxiety disorders. — Kimberly McCreight

I couldn't even get an audition for network TV at home in Ireland. — Jack Reynor

The world is an unfair place because of bullying. A lot of parents loose their children because of bullying next time think twice before bullying someone — Ryan Lewis

There is a great market for religious experience in our world; there is little enthusiasm for the patient acquisition of virtue, little inclination to sign up for a long apprenticeship in what earlier generations of Christians called holiness. — Eugene H. Peterson

I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success. — Robert Falcon Scott

The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. It's the person who says, I'm going to become this and then progressively works toward that goal. — Earl Nightingale

Christian communication is further impeded by the expectations of a world progressing at a staggering pace in every field of study. It seems as though to deal in spiritual matters, the Christian has to be an authority on every other subject, failing which, he is branded "escapist" or "unrealistic." Thus, science, philosophy, psychology, history, and virtually every other discipline affects religion. In a sense, this ought not to be surprising, because spiritual truth deals with the essence of life. For — Ravi Zacharias

You've always got to think about having some fixed income in your portfolio as well as equities. — Charles Schwab