Ralph Bending Quotes & Sayings

Each of us is born with a series of built-in confusions that are probably somehow Darwinian. These are: (1) we're central to the universe (that is, our personal story is the main and most interesting story, the only story, really); (2) we're separate from the universe (there's US and then, out there, all that other junk - dogs and swing-sets, and the State of Nebraska and low-hanging clouds and, you know, other people), and (3) we're permanent (death is real, o.k., sure - for you, but not for me). — George Saunders

Sometimes you have to pretend to be feeling better to actually feel better. It's why new workout clothes make you feel like you want to work out. — Alice Clayton

The battle of "Christian" with "Apollyon" lasted three hours - but Christian's battle with himself lasted all the way from the Wicket Gate in the river Jordan. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

No matter how humble a man's beginnings, he achieves the stature of the office to which he is elected. — Nikita Khrushchev

10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. 11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. — Anonymous

Nothing was just one thing; there were worlds within worlds. Those of us who trod the line between were blessed and burdened with both. — Rachel Hartman

My parents are private investigators for God's sake. — Miranda Lambert