Resorter Quotes & Sayings

Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times. — Markus Zusak

My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science ... — M. Carey Thomas

Why couldn't we put on a defense? I had seventeen witnesses standing outside the door. They just dropped the defense and went on to the penalty phase. Like everything was cut and dry before it went off to martini land. — Charles Manson

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. — Franz Grillparzer

You can enjoy a $15 bottle of wine as much as you can enjoy a $100 bottle of wine. — Joe Bastianich

Jesus was not tempted to see if He would fall. He was tempted to show that He could not fall. — J. Vernon McGee

Josh said, "Well, a good sense of humor would be nice. And a willingness to, you know, try different things." "So, what, a sense of humor and a sense of adventure?" "In the bedroom." "You want her to laugh at our cocks?" "No, idiot, a sense of humor in general and a sense of adventure in the bedroom. — Anonymous

It's like Janine, though, to take it upon herself, to decide the baby's flaws were due to her alone. But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot. One — Margaret Atwood

If truth is contingent upon the society in which we live ... there is nothing intuitive or universally or absolutely true about freedom from torture or freedom from slavery; our society just happens to have come up with these values over time. — Stephen McAndrew

It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council, who knew the secrets of the State and the necessity for prompt action, should despise the merely declaratory character of a good deal of Common Law process. To them we doubtless owe those four great pillars of Chancery jurisdiction, the injunction, the decree, the sequestration, and the commission of rebellion. — Edward Jenks

There are two kinds of prosperity gospels. One promises personal health, wealth, and happiness. Another promises social transformation. In both versions, the results are up to us. We bring God's kingdom to earth, either to ourselves or to society, by following certain spiritual laws or moral and political agendas. Both forget that salvation comes from above, as a gift of God. Both forget that because we are baptized into Christ, the pattern of our lives is suffering leading to glory in that cataclysmic revolution that Christ will bring when he returns. Both miss the point that our lives and the world as they are now are not as good as it gets. We do not have our best life or world now. — Michael S. Horton