Pridefulness In The Bible Quotes & Sayings

Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand? — George Carlin

Disappointment is like a death! In most cases both are not preplanned. They both come when they will come. Only that the former builds up experiences by the latter stops all form of experiences. — Femi Olalekan Erejuwa Komolafe

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. — Euripides

It's a sin problem, not a skin problem. — Benjamin Watson

You don't do anything thinking that it's going to stick. — Ray Liotta

If God dropped acid, would he see people? — Steven Wright

The man they'd come to see was up and standing at the window with his back to them, so that only Sophia saw his squared stance and his shoulders and the brown hair fastened back above the collar of his shirt. He wore no coat, just breeks and boots, and in the fine white shirt he stood there pale and like a ghost, the only thing of light in that dull room.
He spoke again, not looking round, his voice grown hoarser from the illness. 'Did you ye see her? Was she well?'
'She will be now,' the colnel gently said ...
Sophia could not move from where she stood. Could not believe it.
Then he turned, a ghost no longer, but a breathing man. A living man, whose shadowed eyes grew brighter in the grip of hard emotion as he left the window and in two strides crossed to fold her in his arms ... — Susanna Kearsley

As he took another hit, a sense of loneliness consumed him, as if he were the only soul in the Five Boroughs and God was watching him, unimpressed. — David Matthew Olson

And yet, because I am without a doubt mortal, I have the troubling desire to do good, to please, to communicate my warmth, to still be very beautiful sometimes to inspire a taste for beauty. I know that these times are not fertile in grace ... I am afraid tomorrow the grace of woman ... may be recognized as a public utility & be socialized to the point of becoming a banal article, a bazaar object like in '93 & that one will find types of tender or amusing women with millions of copies like the creations of the big ... fashion stores where it is always the same thing. I want to affirm the superiority of the god over that of the organizer of concerts for the poor. — Rachilde

A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply felt and meaningful. What remains? The story remains. — David Mamet

To change formlessness to form requires massive discrimination. — John Zande