Spearheading Define Quotes & Sayings

Cordelia: I hope I've got a vocation.
Charles: I don't know what that means.
Cordelia: It means you can be a nun. If you haven't a vocation it's no good however much you want to be; and if you have a vocation, you can't get away from it, however much you hate it. — Evelyn Waugh

I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the 'f' word. — Helena Bonham Carter

The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are. — Julius Evola

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it. — Pliny The Younger

The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip. — Henny Youngman

He just did it for the same reason he does everything else - he felt like it. — Jerry Spinelli

What we see in these passages is God meeting people, tribes, and cultures right where they are and drawing and inviting and calling them forward, into greater and greater shalom and respect and rights and peace and dignity and equality. It's as if human history were progressing along a trajectory, an arc, a continuum; and sacred history is the capturing and recording of those moments when people became aware that they were being called and drawn and pulled forward by the divine force and power and energy that gives life to everything. — Rob Bell

When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit. — Don Rickles

Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time. — Craig Brown

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface. — Alice McDermott

What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do. — Beth Moore