Slyly Disparaging Quotes & Sayings

When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

So why in the world would anyone support the unethical, failed use of embryonic stem cells instead of the ethical, successful use of adult stem cells? Because they do not know the difference. — Virginia Foxx

I wish we lived like children. Run till you are out of breath, flop on the grass, stare at clouds, jump up again, chase a squirrel around every tree in the park, walk on your hands because the world looks different upside down, climb little hills and roll down the other side, do somersaults . . . just because you can. What do we do instead? We surround ourselves with all these big and small blinking screens, while our bodies and minds slowly forget how to tumble, how to wonder, how to live. — Twinkle Khanna

God in heaven has dominion
Over so many events.
He can frustrate what seems inevitable,
And bring to pass the thing that you least expect. — Euripides

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one. — Alexander Hamilton

Over decades that seem but a moment in time, lines of scarlet figures shuttled among the sorghum stalks to weave a vast human tapestry. They killed, they looted, and they defended their country in a valiant, stirring ballet that makes us unfilial descendants who now occupy the land pale by comparison. — Mo Yan

He was not thinking that the Christian law which he had wanted to follow all his life prescribed that he forgive and love his enemies; but the joyful feeling of love and forgiveness of his enemies filled his soul. — Leo Tolstoy

What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff. — Ted Demme

I'm a micro-celebrity, about as small a celebrity as you can be. — Steve Burns

Not even in my weakest moment have I considered letting you go. — Judith McNaught

But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise. — Alexander Pope

Don't fall in-love with the solution you've built, but with the problem you're trying to solve. — Anonymous

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art. — Charles Rosen

My worst habit is ... getting naked all the time haha ... sorry. — Harry Styles