Ruminated Def Quotes & Sayings

People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try. — Kanye West

Ego-generated emotions are derived from the mind's identification with external factors which are, of course, all unstable and liable to change at any moment. — Eckhart Tolle

If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied. — Ian McKellen

There is a fearful moment of reckoning before us should it ever chance that when all our trees shall have been sacrificed on the altar of the patron-fiend of news, the newspaper supply shall suddenly be cut off and we find ourselves some fine morning minus our tidbits of shame and failure and disaster, left to the companionship of our own thoughts. Dante never imagined a terror like this. — Adeline Knapp

Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy. — Richard Baxter

In the essence of truth lies deceit. — Dejan Stojanovic

At times I see them as if I were walking through the streets of Pompeii before the eruption of Vesuvius. This is one of the historian's delights and, even more, his sorrow. If we see someone doing something for the last time, even just eating a piece of bread, this activity becomes wondrously profound. We participate in the transmutation of the ephemeral into the sacramental. We have inklings of eras during which such a sight was an everyday occurrence. — Ernst Junger

If the apperance doesn't scare you look out for the mind . If that doesn't nothing will . — Maria Bernardin

How can I lean on you when you're lying down? — Samantha Young

That type of autograph, pictures and apparel thievery was not part of what I grew up with. I loved the artists and their music. I would be thrilled to meet them, but the thought of getting a scribble or stealing an article of clothing never occurred or appealed to me. — Davey Havok

I cannot picture to myself a time when all mankind will have one religion. — Mahatma Gandhi

Faith brings into our lives such freedom, such love, such peace, and such joy that there are no words in any language that can explain it. You have to have it in order to know it. You have to experience it in order to understand it. Faith liberates. It liberates love and hope. If I am free to love and free to hope, what more do I want of life? — Catherine Doherty

The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die. — Maaza Mengiste

The Holy Spirit has not only imputed Christ's righteousness to us in justification but he is also imparting Christ's righteousness to us in sanctification. — Michael G. Brown