Retorica Quotes & Sayings

The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out in order to send them back as agents of God's kingship. — Lesslie Newbigin

The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself. — Evan Esar

I had a Tesla. I was one of the first cats with a Tesla. But I'm telling you, I've been on the side of the road a while in that thing. — George Clooney

I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that. — Martha Plimpton

By the time you arrive at Sundance as a filmmaker, you've been living with your film intimiately, and scrutinized every frame, and probably aren't happy with - or at least I'm never happy with it - and you've seen it in the roughest of states, and you lose perspective, really. — James Ponsoldt

There is an art in lighting a fire. We have the liberal arts and we have the useful arts. This is one of the useful arts. — James Joyce

She is a storm cloud of sorrow. You wander in, you may never find your way out. — Julie Berry

I'm very modest. I know that baseball is a very humbling game. — David Wright

I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I'm doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am creating suffering within myself. For instance, you have pain over certain conditions, certain situations that occur. And if you just say 'ok, here I am, I'm going to experience the pain,' you don't suffer. The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering. — Hubert Selby Jr.

They could only stare at Esme's shoes and wonder why she as wearing footwear that was so violent and impractical. — Lemony Snicket

Oppression is the essence of power. — Ernst Kaltenbrunner

One can't allow blind loyalty to a friendship to lead one away from acting in the public interest. If Martin [Schulz] were to propose something that was totally absurd, our friendship would not prevent me from doing the opposite. — Jean-Claude Juncker