Sampermans Quotes & Sayings

You don't know the effect your words have on me, Lady Firebrand. It took years to build up this ice. You will melt it and then I will be broken. — Elly Blake

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence. — Bruce Catton

I'm pleased with my life, with the journey. — Tina Turner

Election has nothing to do with the eternal salvation of individuals but refers instead to God's way of saving nations. It was a major mistake of the Reformation to have decided to follow Augustine in this matter, taking election to refer to grace and salvation. It manages to make bad news out of good news. It casts a deep shadow over the character of God. At it worst, it can lead to awful consequences in terms of pride, arrogance, superiority, and intolerance as the ideology of election takes hold. It causes the church to become, not a sign of the unity of humanity in the love of God, but the sign of favorites in the midst of the enemies of God. — Clark H. Pinnock

Judith Stacey - a prominent New York University professor who is in no way regarded as a fringe figure, in testifying before Congress against the Defense of Marriage Act - expressed hope that the revisionist view's triumph would give marriage "varied, creative, and adaptive contours . . . [leading some to] question the dyadic limitations of Western marriage and seek . . . small group marriages."44 In their statement "Beyond Same-Sex Marriage," more than three hundred "LGBT and allied" scholars and advocates - including prominent Ivy League professors - call for legally recognizing sexual relationships involving more than two partners.45 University of Calgary Professor Elizabeth Brake thinks that justice requires us to use legal recognition to "denormalize[] heterosexual monogamy as a way of life" and correct for "past discrimination against homosexuals, bisexuals, polygamists, and care networks."46 — Sherif Girgis

It turns out that globalisation, while promising sameness through brand-name consumption, was fostering, through uneven economic growth, an intense feeling of difference. — Pankaj Mishra

You can't have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid. — Shai Agassi

Some people are like shooting stars. They burst through our lives in a spectacular arc, but they don't stay long. They just leave a trail. — Erica Orloff

How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price? — D.H. Lawrence

It's a dangerous business, going out your door. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Who I am is not the same minute to minute or day to day. There are far too many variables for that to ever be true, for me, or for anyone. — Dan Pearce

I wasn't terribly aware of Catwoman. She was a DC comics character and as a kid, I wasn't terribly fond of the DC comics characters. I was a Marvel boy. — Benjamin Bratt

There are days you live through; mediocre days that people may see as a waste or even boring. But they are each days that get you to the days you live for; the moments that you never forget. — Meghan Apriceno Carr

If you crack a joke right now I swear I will knee you in the junk. — Laura Kaye

Stop letting your fear condemn you to mediocrity. — Steve Maraboli