Reproved Bible Quotes & Sayings

You've never told me about your love life, Scarlett. You're a very pretty girl. You must have a boy shacked up somewhere for your personal delights. I'd bet it's a booky one, overtones of Harry Potter and a lot of black T-shirts. — Maureen Johnson

I don't give up on anything! I fight to the very end no matter how many setbacks I may have. Even if you fail, don't give up! With each failure, you are only one step away from victory. Failure allows us to learn, so while you may encounter failure, use the experience positively and believe in your success. — Monica Breckenridge

After an early legal and legislative life attempting to abolish slavery, Jefferson, now at midlife, made a calculated decision that he would no longer risk his "usefulness" in the arena by pressing the issue.55 (There was a partial victory later: The Northwest Ordinance of 178756 prohibited slavery north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi rivers.) In all, though, for Jefferson public life was about compromise and an unending effort to balance competing interests. To have pursued abolition, even when coupled, as it was in Jefferson's mind, with deportation, was politically lethal. And Jefferson was not going to risk all for what he believed was a cause whose time had not yet come. — Jon Meacham

Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions. — Baltasar Gracian

We always feel threatened by things we don't know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on. — Aaron Eckhart

Actually," she stammered, forcing a smile she hoped looked apologetic, "I am Rupert's sister. I thought this was
his room, you see. And ... and the thing is he had brought me a gift and I just could not contain my impatience. I thought I would get just a little peek at it."
The gaze he raked down her this time was bold and frankly appraising, and Melantha could not dismiss the sensation of standing completely naked before him, as if he could see directly through her clothing and perceive every tiny flaw. — Julia Keaton

My favorite albums are really short. — Thomas Mars

The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work. — William James

No such thing as too tall," she said. She had automatically reached for a brush and now she began uncoiling the tangles of my hair. "It's good for a woman to be able to look into a man's eyes. Then she's not afraid to tell him what she thinks. — Sharon Shinn

I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me. — Melanie Griffith

The warding off of anxiety is central to the time-binding, action-delaying, and cerebral functions of the human animal. — Ernest Becker

Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out the gospel in our souls — John Owen

That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant. — Chinua Achebe

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. — Virginia Woolf