Scrupulously Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

Pondering is a little like considering and a little like thinking, but looser. To ponder, one must let the facts roll around the rim of the mind's roulette wheel, coming to settle in whichever slot they feed pulled to. — Christopher Moore

Do not pity me, Beatrice De Novo. My life has been as fate dictated, and now I am master of it. Do not waste your regret on the past. — Elizabeth Hunter

Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them. — Philip Yancey

Once again, the point of this discussion is not to accuse Christians of endorsing torture and persecution. Of course most devout Christians today are thoroughly tolerant and humane people. Even those who thunder from televised pulpits do not call for burning heretics alive or hoisting Jews on the strappado. The question is why they don't, given that their beliefs imply that it would serve the greater good. The answer is that people in the West today compartmentalize their religious ideology. When they affirm their faith in houses of worship, they profess beliefs that have barely changed in two thousand years. But when it comes to their actions, they respect modern norms of nonviolence and toleration, a benevolent hypocrisy for which we should all be grateful. — Steven Pinker

Feeling a bit nervous, as most people do at the prospect of seeing a doctor, I thought I would buy on my way to him something soothing to prevent an accelerated pulse from misleading credulous science. — Vladimir Nabokov

We must measure what leads to results, not simply what is easy to measure. — Charles Koch

The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding. — Miyamoto Musashi

Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ? — Arthur Rimbaud