Pleissenburg Quotes & Sayings

I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week practicing something that people just dismiss with a wave of hand. — Penn Jillette

There aren't any answers to be found. There are no good choices. Submissiveness to a tyrant or chaos and suffering. — Brandon Sanderson

In our contemporary social and intellectual plight, it is nothing less than shocking to discover that those persons who claim to have discovered an absolute are usually the same people who also pretend to be superior to the rest. To find people in our day attempting to pass off to the world and recommending to others some nostrum of the absolute which they claim to have discovered is merely a sign of the loss of and the need for intellectual and moral certainty, felt by broad sections of the population who are unable to look life in the face. — Karl Mannheim

Where do you draw the line between actions carried out due to an internal need and actions that were nothing more than a slim version of one ceremony or another that help us define our emotions? — Yoav Blum

When you have your passion, you never even think about other things. It's tunnel vision. You go until you get it. — Nicola Peltz

Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it. — Bill Bailey

It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in mirrors and buys things to deck itself out in. But that is merely personal conceit. Real vanity is something quite different. A matter not of person but of personality. Vanity says, "I must have this because I am me." It is a frightening thing because it is incurable. — Josephine Tey

I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia. — Emma Bonino

Considering Independence Hall was also where the founders calculated that a slave equals three-fifths of a person and cooked up an electoral college that lets Florida and Ohio pick our presidents, making an adolescent who barely spoke English a major general at the age I got hired to run the cash register at a Portland pizza joint was not the worst decision ever made there. — Sarah Vowell

A test of a Christian's character is what he does after he comes to the blockade in the road and what his attitude is after everything has left him except Jesus. You will never know down here that Christ is all you need until Christ is all you have left. You will never be able to tell the world for sure that He will do in a crisis unless you learn how to live in a crisis. — Lester Roloff

It is a life's task to find the ways you want to play an endless game of uncontrol- lable beauty — David Shapiro

Break out of our boxes, Lord, and ruin everything that isn't of You!") — Tommy Tenney