Shelnutt Gale Quotes & Sayings

Do you ever wonder why a battered wife stays with her husband? Why people continue to spend money they don't have even though they know they are deeply in debt? Why some keep jamming food in their mouths when they're already overweight? Why do people stay in bad relationships? Why are some people still racist? Why do people still drink and drive? You'd think the response to all these things would be obvious and cause them to scream, "Duh, of course I need to change this." Why do we keep doing church the same way even when we know it's in critical decline? Why do paid church leaders spend so much time preparing for a 90-minute service for Christians who have heard it all before? Why do we still call our message the good news when it clearly seems to be bad news or no news to Sojourners? Why do we think Pharisees are only found in the Bible? Why is returning to a simpler form of ancient church so hard to grasp? — Hugh Halter

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Oh, Lord Montgomery, what do you mean to do with me in this bedroom when you have me all alone? An innocent maiden, and unprotected? Is my virtue safe?
'I, ah- what?'
'I know you are a dangerous man. Some call you a rake. Everybody knows you are a devil with the ladies with your poetically puffed shirt and irresistible pants. I pray you will consider my innocence. And my poor, vulnerable heart.'
Simon decided this was a lot like role-playing in D&D, but potentially more fun. — Cassandra Clare

Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere. — Mike Zwerin

I don't fear death, I fear the pieces of my heart could be further shattered and it will still be beating. — Jewel E. Ann

To be a writer you have to write
and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you. — Michelle Richmond

If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft. — Joe Biden

I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money. — Angie Stone

If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment. — Milton Friedman

No one told me you can love someone and still be miserable. How is that possible? — Krista Ritchie

I believe that people just want to laugh and have a good time. — Kym Whitley

If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise. — Calvin Coolidge

Don't wait for anything, just live your life today. — Vivek Thangaswamy