Purgatory Quotes Quotes & Sayings

T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past. — Michel De Montaigne

Unfortunately, every American citizen takes the same position that we don't like negative advertisements. But they work! And, as you see, many a candidate has prevailed by tearing down the reputation of an opponent in a more advantageous position. — Jimmy Carter

Learning the art of expressing gratitude will force you to focus on the positive. — Jim Rohn

Elide immediately shrugged out of Lorcan's grip. Aelin and Aedion had stopped ahead, waiting for her. Smiling faintly - welcomingly.

So Elide headed for them, her court, and did not look back. — Sarah J. Maas

Displays of weapons will not be able to bring peace, only displays of love and understanding can do that. — Debasish Mridha

There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life. — Karisma Kapoor

Isn't that part of love, I wanted to ask, carrying someone else's ghosts for them? — Tiffany Baker

I think I got a rock in mine, 'stead of bacon."

"Heh. Well, that's life for you. Sometimes you get bacon. Sometimes you get a rock. My advice to you, sir, is to eat what you can, spit out what you cain't. — Rob Vollmar

But my wings couldn't move and I couldn't fly, and I couldn't even cry. — Dot Hutchison

Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

History will be erased in the universal purgatory. — Dejan Stojanovic

I know what's coming you see. I know no one beats these odds and I know it's a matter of getting used to that and realizing that you are expelled from your mother's uterus as if shot from a cannon towards a barn door studded with old nail files and rusty hooks. It's a matter of how you use up the intervening time in an intelligent and ironic way; and try not to do anything ghastly to your fellow creatures. — Christopher Hitchens

I want to make him the proudest dad to have me and I want to show everybody and nearly be as good as him because he was the best. — Bindi Irwin

The Enlightenment, finally, invented progressive 'history' as an inner-worldly purgatory in order to develop the conditions of possibility of a perfected 'society'. This provided the required setting for the aggressive social theology of the Modern Age to drive out the political theology of the imperial eras. What was the Enlightenment in its deep structure if not an attempt to translate the ancient rhyme on learning and suffering - mathein pathein - into a collective and species-wide phenomenon? Was its aim not to persuade the many to expose themselves to transitional ordeals that would precede the great optimization of all things? — Peter Sloterdijk

As Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor. My sister [Maggie Gyllenhaal] came up to me recently after she saw this movie, Southpaw, the movie I did, and she thought there was this exploration of that type of presentation, and a bit of representation as well, if I could be totally honest, where she was deeply moved. — Jake Gyllenhaal

No problem is so intractable that something interesting cannot be said about it. — Jeffrey Lagarias

We aren't using Guantanamo Bay anymore to take additional terrorists. That was the perfect facility to be able to use to extract information from people to keep the American people safe. — Michele Bachmann