Promnesic Quotes & Sayings

If I stop today at a protest and I read a speech, it is a speech that remains in that moment, and whoever captures it does, and whoever doesn't, doesn't, and just keeps walking. It is very sterile, and it can seem even inaccessible and boring for a community. — Bocafloja

I never bought into the whole "second amendment" argument as it relates to the 21st century. Originally, it was put into place for the simple reason that our forefathers were fighting or had just fought off a government that threatened them with weapons. If those in the revolution had no weapons, there would be no United States of America, but rather New England of the New World. So, I understood why they thought it was so important. — Martin Manley

Sometimes when we read the words of those who have been more than conquerors, we feel almost despondent. I feel that I shall never be like that. But they won through step by step, by little bits of wills, little denials of self, little inward victories, by faithfulness in very little things. They became what they are. No one sees these little hidden steps. They only see the accomplishment, but even so, those small steps were taken. There is no sudden triumph, no spiritual maturity. That is the work of the moment. — Amy Carmichael

God loves us and has adopted us exactly as we are, knowing every single thing about us. And if He's not ashamed of us, then why should we be? — Matt Chandler

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business. — Charlton Heston

The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how. — Margaret Atwood

I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully. — Andre Previn

All suffering is worth it to follow Jesus. He is that amazing. — Nabeel Qureshi

Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II. — Thor Heyerdahl

I don't think I've ever prayed in my entire life, never sat and had an imaginary chat with God. — Jim Jefferies

I would rather produce my passions than brood over them at my expense; they grow languid when they have vent and expression. It is better that their point should operate outwardly than be turned against us. — Michel De Montaigne

A woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself — Edith Wharton

Trust the process.
Your time is coming.
Just do the work
and the results will handle themselves. — Tony Gaskins

I insist on group singing of the names of the Lord. — Sathya Sai Baba

Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation of many generations (or even societies) over a long period of time. By contrast with humankind, every individual animal can and does do what for the most part it might do, or what any other of its kind might or can do that lives at the same time. — John Rawls