Sistol Quotes & Sayings

A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience as can be imagined. — David Hume

I think I wanted to be a punk-rocker before I wanted to be anything else. I remember wanting a mohawk, and I wanted to cut the sleeves off of my jean jacket because I used to want to be Dirty Dan from Sha-Na-Na. This is before hip-hop was even around. I had the skinny piano tie. I had it, man. — CeeLo Green

Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage. — Octavia Butler

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one. — Isaiah Thomas

Nature will castigate those who don't masticate. — Horace Fletcher

Thinking outside of the box allows you to get rewards outside of your reach. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known. — Lois Lowry

If you can't see that your own culture has its own set of interests, emotions, and biases, how can you expect to deal successfully with someone else's culture? — Anne Fadiman

Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them. — Homer

Wink wasn't a villain.
She wasn't a hero.
People aren't just one thing. They never, ever are.
Wink was flesh and blood.
She was bad.
And she was good.
She was real. — April Genevieve Tucholke

This is a mighty wonder: in the discharge from the lungs alone, which is not particularly dangerous, the patients do not despair of themselves, even although near the last. Concerning Tuberculosis. — Aretaeus Of Cappadocia

Any belief worth having must survive doubt — George Bernard Shaw

I really try towork with an artist who is trying to create a long legacy of quality rather than trying to jump aboard a trend. — John Dyer Baizley

You know, you find that these stories ... will turn one of us into the good guy and one of us into the bad guy. If you look at it closely or even not that closely ... it's ridiculous. — Brad Pitt

It's a damn shame that duels don't play a role in the modern world anymore. — Elle Kennedy