Smattering Define Quotes & Sayings

The Bible isn't meant to be read reactively. It is meant to be prayed proactively. — Mark Batterson

I first started going to shows when I was about 16 - seeing local bands. I mean, I loved music before that, and I played a bit of guitar when I was younger and thought maybe I'd become a guitar teacher or something, but when I saw other kids doing it, I was like, 'Whoa, these are great bands! I can do it, too.' — Mac DeMarco

The bookshop felt damp and chilly, but it was still and unsupervised bookshop, and Anna felt a frisson of excitement as she scanned the shelves with greedy eyes. Libraries weren't quite the same, she'd found; something about the prosaic smell of other people's houses and fingers seeping off the pages diluted that sense of magical worlds, but untouched, unread, unexplored books were something else. — Lucy Dillon

America is the only civilization in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization — Georges Clemenceau

I thought a vegan diet would be too difficult, being on the road so much, but it's been far easier than I thought. — Michelle Forbes

I want to be the bird that flies away. — Tahereh Mafi

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. — Charles Caleb Colton

But we must not suffer over the suffering. — Alan Watts