Routinized Conformity Quotes & Sayings

I consider prayer to be of immense psychological benefit. But we must accept that its tangible results are often hard to see. When it comes to obtaining certain, direct results, it is clear that prayer cannot match the achievements of, for instance, modern science. — Dalai Lama XIV

Oh it's the bingo playing wizard
I love you guys so much, but not as much as my bird and my bingo! — Louis Tomlinson

Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck. — Marge Piercy

For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged. — Shirley Hazzard

Women are my biggest defenders. It's that bad-boy syndrome. Now girls chase me. — O.J. Simpson

I think every person has the ability to affect change ... through our every thought our every word, the way that we interact with other people. We are constantly affecting the world. — Adam Yauch

Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values. — Nancy Pearcey

Billy Pilgrim wasn't weak, she decided, as he drifted back to sleep - he was broken. The whole system was broken. Sending young men to war, expecting them to come back whole, their bullets to make things right. Expecting a girl from the Big Sky State to step off a bus in LA and have a career that wouldn't kill her. The machinery of it all was set up unfair from the start. Living in three dimensions meant you learned what you needed to know too late in life. — Hugh Howey

Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate — Al Pacino

If anything in the universe reflects the fingerprint of God, it is the human heart" ... It derives no benefit from the blood it pumps making it the most unselfish of organs ... it is also the most courageous and faithful." (124, 126) - Reese — Charles Martin

I imagine she came out of the birth canal holding a cupcake and a spatula. — Katja Millay

The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school. — Mary Stuart Masterson

I never expect anything. I am always amazed at why anybody goes to any movie or why anybody doesn't go to any movie. Any movie you make, you make it because you're hoping somebody wants to see it, but you never know. — Clint Eastwood

If you become very close to your teacher, if you do well in your meditation, a deep emotional bond will develop between both of you over a period of time. You can be thousands of miles away from your teacher and find that induction is always taking place. That's the ideal. — Frederick Lenz

Ellen drank long and deep from her water bottle and wiped her mouth with her gauntleted arm. "Are you feeling all right, Jack? Your play's flat, all in all. I was hoping to give Seph more of a show."
Jack tested the edge of his blade with his thumb. "Actually, Ellen, I wondered if you were coming down with something. You were downright lethargic. I nearly dozed off once or twice."
"Well, that explains it. You looked like you were asleep."
With that, they threw down their weapons and it dissolved into a wrestling match. In the end they were kissing each other.
It was certainly a different kind of courtship, but there was a chemistry, an understanding, a kinship between Jack and Ellen that Seph envied. — Cinda Williams Chima