Shalomic Quotes & Sayings

Children represent God's most generous gift to us. — James Dobson

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are. — Flannery O'Connor

Do you want to flourish in the garden of life? Life's gardeners pluck the weeds and care only for the productive plants. — Bryant McGill

Only as long as one did what one always did would one remain relatively invisible. — Lene Kaaberbol

The best-laid plans of mice and comedians usually wind up on the cutting-room floor. — Jon Stewart

I thought everything I knew about you might have been a lie, but since meeting him and your parents, I've realized that the parts of you I knew weren't untrue; they were only part-truths. There were lots of things about you that I didn't know, and learning those things has actually been comforting in a way. They make me feel closer to you. And I can see that actually there's one real truth, and that is you loved me enough to do anything it took to protect me. I think that's something I've known my whole life. I'm thankful for it. — Jennifer Brown

Don't go to the grave with life unused. — Bobby Bowden

So I'd stabbed needles into my eyes and pretended not to see certain things. Bad things. Only by turning my back on certain thing, I ended up turning my back on my dearest friend, a betrayal I never intended.
Or so I told myself. That was the problem with lying to yourself. Sometimes you got too good. — Lauren Myracle

With prodigious bravery and eviscerating humor, Roxane Gay takes on culture and politics in Bad Feminist-and gets it right, time and time again. We should all be lucky enough to be such a bad feminist. — Ayelet Waldman

Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay. — Jacki Weaver

It only fed my post office psychosis. Whenever I'm in one, and almost to the counter, I keep repeating to myself: 'Please don't put out the "Position Closed" sign; please don't put out the "Position Closed" sign; dear God, don't let him put out the sign; please, please, please, I'm almost to the counter! I made it! I finally made it! He didn't put out the . . . Wait, what's he reaching for? . . . Fuck! — Tim Dorsey

There was some discussion, but nothing got close to being a reality. They asked for a lot and got a lot (from the White Sox). — Eric Wedge

He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others. — Mother Teresa

to elevate the race of humankind. To endow each individual with sovereignty over his own heart and to lift the state as a whole to govern itself. — Steven Pressfield