Speedtest Quotes & Sayings

It seems the whole works of humankind are backwards. Most are trying to convince, instruct, and purify everyone else - without first purifying themselves. To enlighten others we have to enlighten ourselves. — David Wolfe

Life is a race against time — Sunday Adelaja

You belong wherever you want to belong. — Sophia Amoruso

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed. — Rob Chapman

Being a politician, I know how motivating it can be when the public is outraged. — Margrethe Vestager

The messiest parts of our lives are also the most beautiful parts of our lives. — Glennon Doyle Melton

I didn't cry out and I didn't weep when I was told that my son Henri was a prisoner in his own world, when it was confirmed that he is one of those children who don't hear us, don't speak to us, even though they're neither deaf nor mute. He is also one of those children we must love from a distance, neither touching, nor kissing, not smiling at them because every one of their senses would be assaulted by the odour of our skin, by the intensity of our voices, the texture of our hair, the throbbing of our hearts. Probably he'll never call me maman lovingly, even if he can pronounce the world poire with all the roundness and sensuality of the oi sound. He will never understand why I cried when he smiled for the first time. He won't know that, thanks to him, every spark of joy has become a blessing and that I will keep waging war against autism, even if I know already that it's invincible. Already, I am defeated, stripped bare, beaten down. — Kim Thuy

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden. — Lars Von Trier

I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I'm in bed with the influenza. — Quintus Ennius

Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us. — Annie Dillard

Temptation isn't impersonal - there is an actual enemy doing the tempting. Mark treats Satan as a reality, not a myth. This is certainly jarring in contemporary cultures that are skeptical of the existence of the supernatural, let alone the demonic. — Timothy Keller