Setnesmoen Quotes & Sayings

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't. — Anthony Kiedis

The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad logical quality to which the epithet metaphysical is commonly applied; and nothing can clear it up but a severe course of logic. — Charles Sanders Peirce

The results of knowledge without application results in nothing at all. Do what you know better to do. — DeWayne Owens

Some roads, once set out upon, reveal no possible path but forward. Every other track is blocked by snarls of thorns, steaming fissures or rearing walls of stone. What waits at the far end of the forward path is unknown, and since knowledge itself may prove a curse, the best course is simply to place one foot in front of the other, and think not at all of fate or the cruel currents of destiny. — Steven Erikson

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. — Jane Haddam

To worship God 'in spirit and in truth' is first and foremost a way of saying that we must worship God by means of Christ. In him the reality has dawned and the shadows are being swept away (Hebrews 8:13). Christian worship is new covenant worship; it is gospel-inspired worship; it is Christ-centered worship; it is cross-focused worship. — D. A. Carson

I can no longer believe in any voodoo spell or laboratory virus. This is something deeper, darker. This comes from the cosmos, from the stars, or the unknown blackness behind them. The shadows in God's boarded-up basement. — Isaac Marion

If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible. — Josette Sheeran

Dear friend, you are being faithful to God when you care for the traveling teachers who pass through, even though they are strangers to you. - 3 John 1:5 — Gary Chapman

Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur. — Diane Ackerman

You don't believe in heaven? A nun?'
'If you don't, why should I?'
'If you did, maybe I would.'
'If I did, you would not have to. — Don DeLillo