Preponderated Quotes & Sayings

Waverleys know where to find the truth, they just can't stomach it. — Sarah Addison Allen

Even two people who are no more than friends by daylight can fell prey to the influence of a secret dark room. — Cecilia Grant

The church works best as a force of resistance, a conscience to society that keeps itself at arm's length from the state. The closer it gets, the less effectively it can challenge the surrounding culture and the more perilously it risks losing its central message. — Philip Yancey

And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly grateful for instruction, whether it was how to stroke a backhand, mix a martini, use a wallpaper steamer, or do the Twist. My wife, too, seemed willing to learn. Old as we must have looked to our children, we were still taking lessons, in how to be grown-up. — John Updike

I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me. — A. Whitney Brown

It is impossible to say how far the present value of money depends on its monetary employment and how far on its industrial employment. When the institution of money was first established, the industrial basis of the value of the precious metals may have preponderated; but with progress in the monetary organization of economic life the monetary employment has become more and more important. It is certain that nowadays the value of gold is largely supported by its monetary employment, and that its demonetization would affect its price in an overwhelming fashion. — Ludwig Von Mises

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control. — Jeff Koons