Shinkami Tiktoks Quotes & Sayings

The mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God. — John Piper

If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life. — Joycelyn Elders

If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you. — Eugenio Maria De Hostos

Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act. — Dale Peck

I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes. — Liu Xiaobo

Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone. — Peter Farb

In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school. — Hermann Hesse

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk. — Barbara Walters

The young man was sort of ... well ... peering at this shovel, and Lisey knew not by his face but by the whole awkward this-way-n-that jut of his lanky body that he didn't have any idea what he was seeing. It could have been an artillery shell, a bonsai tree, a radiation detector, or a china pig with a slot in its back for spare silver; it could have been a whang-dang-doodle, a phylactery testifying to the pompetus of love, or a cloche hat made out of coyote skin. It could have been the penis of the poet Pindar. This guy was too far gone to know. — Stephen King

If anything could prove the existence of the soul, he thought, it was the utter emptiness of a corpse. — Mary Doria Russell

...why can't I stop all the moving and look out over the vast arrangements and find by the contours and colors and qualities of light where my father is, not to solve anything but just simply even to see it again one last time, before what, before it ends, before it stops. But it doesn't stop; it simply ends. It is a final pattern scattered without so much as a pause at the end, at the end of what, at the end of this. — P. Harding

The people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the same when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it. — Alexander Hamilton

He didn't quite know how to neutralize a threat that he couldn't shoot. — Lyn Gala