Sibyls Michelangelo Quotes & Sayings

If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting. — Kirk Douglas

The sun was beginning to dry out the mud that Arthur lay in. — Douglas Adams

The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written. — Raymond Queneau

Home: a place you're from, not a place you live. — Micheal Maxwell

YOUR ABUSIVE PARTNER DOESN'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH HIS ANGER; HE HAS A PROBLEM WITH YOUR ANGER.
One of the basic human rights he takes away from you is the right to be angry with him. No matter how badly he treats you, he believes that your voice shouldn't rise and your blood shouldn't boil. The privilege of rage is reserved for him alone. When your anger does jump out of you - as will happen to any abused woman from time to time - he is likely to try to jam it back down your throat as quickly as he can. Then he uses your anger against you to prove what an irrational person you are. Abuse can make you feel straitjacketed. You may develop physical or emotional reactions to swallowing your anger, such as depression, nightmares, emotional numbing, or eating and sleeping problems, which your partner may use as an excuse to belittle you further or make you feel crazy. — Lundy Bancroft

Memorization is not as vital a discipline as fulfilling curiosity with research and reasoning ... Internet and Google literacy should be taught to help students vet facts and judge reliability. — Jeff Jarvis

What's with the zombie craze? Zombies are half alive, half dead, right? Sounds like my wife in bed. — Jarod Kintz

Until we start thinking in terms of revolution instead of compromise the Church will continue to pat itself on the back with token steps of renewal. — Mike Yaconelli

He was from Yorkshire, or somewhere like that, and like many Northerners with issues, he'd moved to London as a cheap alternative to psychotherapy. — Ben Aaronovitch

The creative writer is compulsively concrete ... His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them; they should flit past the windows after dark, not fill the rooms. The moment anyone tries to make poems or stories of ideas alone he is at the edge of absurdity; he can only harangue, never interest and persuade, because ideas in their conceptual state are simply not dramatic. They have to be put into the form of people and actions ... — Wallace Stegner

Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine! — Jon Gordon

We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

For this is God's great plan, that people rise up beyond their personal hatreds, here, right now, in this new land where so many different people with so many different bloods have come to join together and that we recognize we are all the children of God! Every one of us! — Victor Villasenor

People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a common weapon of ethnic conflicts. I want to make it clear that I created my assault rifle to protect my country. You can blame politicians for its spreading out of control on a global scale. — Mikhail Kalashnikov