Sedately Def Quotes & Sayings

Jesus used paradoxes to help us see the kingdom of God. His paradoxical statements turned the secular world upside down. As we have already noted, He said that 'whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave.' He said that 'the last shall be first, and the first shall be last.' He said: 'I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.' He said that 'Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. — Kent M. Keith

It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement. — Herman Melville

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago in the stone age — Jodie Foster

Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent. — Douglas Lenat

The most important thing to me is to give something back to my parents, because they've done so much for me throughout my life. — Leona Lewis

The Seascapes are before human beings and after human beings. The Seascapes were there before our presence, and when our civilization is over, seascapes will still exist. Our presence is temporary. Civilization is only 5,000 to 6,000 years. The history of ours, the material history of consciousness, is rather short. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

And under my breath I was telling it to hisht and for shame, and if I had known any swearing I would have had that in, too. — Richard Llewellyn

Nobody' perfect, Cheyenne. We can all do better, but do it for yourself, not for me. Not for anyone else. — M. Leighton

of his lakeside shack A watchman, Father Time, all gray and bent, Emerged with his uneasy dog and went Along the reedy bank. He came too late. — Vladimir Nabokov

Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know? — Diana Ross

Kobe Bryant is the most talented player in the game today; he could do anything. — Alonzo Mourning