Practicedent Quotes & Sayings

I've learned that if one is arrogant and if something bad happens to him, people won't want him to succeed. They will make more of an effort to bring him down. — Lapo Elkann

I have a very difficult time believing that there is some being who is going to invite me into heaven or not on the basis of whether I wear a yarmulke or whether I have been sprinkled with water while someone said something. Some of the ritual is very beautiful, but I find it difficult to believe that it really has to do with God. I believe that dogma comes from man. — Andrew Solomon

It was both exhilarating and terrifying to discover that someone needed you as much as you needed them. — Fiona Neill

It's always the scuffs in the marble that make its inner light seem to glow more brightly. — Alena Graedon

The truth is I'm in a place without a bright side or a one best thing. I'm in a place where, honest to God, you feel you can kill your friends just by asking the names of stars. — David James Duncan

Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord ... He waits quietly for the King. — J.C. Ryle

She felt a budding loneliness, and with it came the familiar emptiness that once threatened to swallow her whole. — Sarah McCoy