Remembering Martyrs Quotes & Sayings

Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible ... Global warming does not press any of those buttons. — Daniel Gilbert

Living in filth is dark doom. The light of awaken leads to cleanliness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The real work of this life is not what we do every day from 9-5 ... The real work is to be passionate, be holy, be wild, be irreverent, to laugh and cry until you awaken the sleeping spirits, until the ground of your being cleaves and the universe comes flooding in. — Geneen Roth

If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say. — Peter Welch

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it. — Wilson Mizner

It is no small pity, and should cause us no little shame, that, through our own fault, we do not understand ourselves, or know who we are. — Teresa Of Avila

I've always kept my word, and my clients have always kept their word. — Robert Shapiro

I turn to contemporary fiction seeking a shared awareness with the writer of the cultural moment we both occupy, its peculiar challenges. — Jennifer Egan

If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees. — Vance Havner

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America. — Charles Edward Merriam

Max sent Scottie some literary advice, the same dictum he gave every college student who called on him. He stressed the importance of a liberal arts education but urged her to avoid all courses in writing. "Everyone has to find her own way of writing," he wrote Scottie, "and the source of finding it is largely out of literature. — A. Scott Berg

Drugs in a disco are great for white people because it allows them to feel more Puerto Rican while dancing. — Dov Davidoff

God promises no easy life or days without troubles, trials, difficulties, and temptations. He never promises that life will be perfect. He does not call His children to a playground, but to a battleground. — Billy Graham