Portended Def Quotes & Sayings

Your mistakes aren't learning experiences ... if you aren't learning from them. — Loren Weisman

sight. So I was still attracted to Jean-Claude. I might even, in some dark corner, love him a little. It didn't matter. Loving the monsters always ends badly for the human. It's a rule. That — Laurell K. Hamilton

Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain. — Roland Joffe

I actually grew up thinking that sex was absolutely terrifying and that it would kill you. — Amanda Seyfried

I am sitting here 93 million miles from the sun on a rounded rock which is spinning at the rate of 1000 miles an hour ... and my head pointing down into space with nothing between me and infinity but something called gravity which I can't even understand, and which you can't even buy any place so as to have some stored away for a gravityless day ... — Russell Baker

Continued eloquence is wearisome. — Blaise Pascal

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. — Thomas Moore

What you get when you put all your resources behind a product, is you get everyone to join in. — Anita Elberse

This path, this road that is one perfect straight line even if it goes around the world through heat and fog and rain and snow and it's my life I keep thinking. It's my life. — Deborah Keenan

we are living in an age of hero worship, and Christendom itself is infected by this evil spirit. Man is eulogized and magnified on every hand, not only out in the world, but even in the so-called churches, Bible conferences, and religious periodicals - seen in the advertising of the speakers, the printing of their photos, and the toadying to them. O how little hiding behind the Cross, how little self-effacement there is today. "Cease ye from man" (Isa. 2:22), needs to be placed in large letters over the platforms of all the big religious gatherings in this man-deifying age. No wonder the Holy Spirit is "grieved" and "quenched," yet where are the voices being raised in faithful protest? — Arthur W. Pink