Saubier Forums Quotes & Sayings

The business of the church is to tell and embody a story — Lesslie Newbigin

My stormtrooper suit would chip underneath the armpits and in between the thighs. So they had to do a lot of editing for my costume and shave some areas down. — John Boyega

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it. — Bryant H. McGill

I've been thinking a lot about the word "everything." Whenever something horrible happens, you hear people say they "lost everything." They lost their house or their car or their stuff or whatever, and to them it feels like everything. But they have no idea what it's like to lose everything. I thought I knew, but now I realize even I haven't lost everything, because I still have that polka-dot swimsuit in my memory. I still have those ice cream nights and the scorpion that scared Marin and the Barking Bulldogs sweatshirt and the robins-egg-blue nail polish. Somehow having those things makes the other things matter less.
I'm wondering if it's even possible to lose "everything" or if you just have to keep redefining what "everything" is. — Jennifer Brown

When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute; we wanted people to take it seriously, so we gave it more of an industrial look. People personified their Roomba anyway. Over 80 percent of people name their robot. We did nothing to encourage people to do that, but they do it anyway. — Colin Angle

I wasn't very confident about clothes; I was always hunting through racks, never sure what looked right. It can be like that again when you're older. — Kim Gordon

If you are in a dark room, don't beat at the darkness with a stick, but rather try to turn on the light — Paramahansa Yogananda

The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future. — Joan Robinson

He was as serious as a copperhead in a wood stack. His — Beth Macy

Meat supplies a variety of nutrients - among them iron, zinc, and Vitamin B12 - that are not readily found in plants. We can survive without it; millions of vegetarians choose to do so, and billions of others have that choice imposed upon them by poverty. — Michael Specter

Sometimes people who are never alone are the loneliest, don't you think so? — A. I. Bezzerides

I have to keep law and order and it means that I have to kill my enemies before they kill me. — Idi Amin