Sharky And Bones Quotes & Sayings

People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things. — Frederica Mathewes-Green

They say they have noticed me drawing. I almost tell them right then and there. They noticed. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Listen closely. There's a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I don't give a damn if my work is commercial or not ... I'm the writer. If what I write is good, then people will read it. That's why literature exists. An author puts his heart and guts on the page. For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never waste time on something you don't believe in yourself. — John Fante

It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would normally employ. — Phyllis Bentley

Haylee shook her head as soon as they were gone. Christ, how can our family be mankind's best hope? — Natasha Larry

I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain. — William Standish Knowles

He found Fraden, the department head, exactly how he hoped she'd be. They soon had a standing date to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer every Tuesday night at her house. As — D.T. Max

Many marriages dry up and miss the path to individuation because the couples try to ease their situations through excluding and representing their most essential characteristics, whether these be peculiar sexual wishes, neurotic traits, or whatever. The more one confronts everything, the more interesting and fruitful becomes the path to individution. — Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig

When the stocks go up, the cocks go up! — Xaviera Hollander

... one thing we know for sure: everybody has to be somewhere. Is it possible you are somewhere you didn't fully realize? — Van Harden

Refuse to ever use the term 'failure' again about yourself or anyone else. Remind yourself that wehn things didn't go as planned you didn't fail, you only produced a result. — Wayne Dyer

I have nothing to make me feel good, except for you. The last thing I want to do is turn you into my new drug of choice. — Collette West

I'm not interested in how things were, or how we ended up where we are now. What interests me is what we are now and what we will be. — Ahmed Toufiq

Imagine now a different scene. Aaron and the Israelites are patiently and faithfully waiting for Moses to return. Finally, they see him coming down. But rather than tablets of stone, he carries the golden calf. And then they hear him speak: "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt" (Exod. 32:4). The prophet himself would have now engaged in idolatric substitution. He ascended the mountain to meet with God, but he has returned with an idol. Impossible? It happens every day, and to the best of ordinary prophets, even if it does not happen in such a crass way: the prophets may carry down from the mountain the tablets of stone, but at least some of the writing on them can be traced to the golden calf rather than to the true God of Israel. — Miroslav Volf