Statornic Dex Quotes & Sayings

If only she could be bold enough, and brave enough, to claim the things she wanted: love, a purpose, a life. But could she be? — Jennifer Donnelly

He might as well change his name to temptation, because that's what he was. Pure fucking temptation. — Ella Frank

A thug only understands you when you speak his language — Alexander Lukashenko

The prayer of the church determines the history and the fate of its people as well as the whole earth — Sunday Adelaja

Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing freedom of opinion within an aristocratic class which at the same time sanctioned the ruthless suppression of heterodox opinion among the common people. When the Inquisition was operating most effectively against the bourgeois who had lapsed into heresy, the princes of the Church and the nobles enjoyed the freedom of the Renaissance. — Walter Lippmann

Swing at the strikes. — Yogi Berra

My mom tells me the first show we saw was 'The Secret Garden,' but I don't remember that. — Aaron Lazar

Although the warrior's life is dedicated to helping others, he realizes that he will never be able to completely share his experience with others ... Yet he is more and more in love with the world. That combination of love affair and loneliness is what enables the warrior to constantly reach out to help others. By renouncing his private world, the warrior discovers a greater universe and a fuller and fuller broken heart. This is not something to feel bad about; it is a cause for rejoicing. — Chogyam Trungpa

Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another year. Eventually everything would happen. — Paul Bowles

The gospel of Christ must always be an open door with a welcome sign for all. — Johnny Cash

When the wind came it split the sky and shouldered the cloud-band left and right; unbarring great clear furnaces of rolling gold. — G.K. Chesterton

Only he without sin can tell me if my means justify my ends. — Jay-Z

He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divine power, a frail god upon a rickety throne, afraid of opening letters, of making decisions, afraid of the instinctive knowledge in the eyes of mules, of the innocent eyes of good men, of the elastic nature of the passions, even of the devotion he had received from some men, and one woman, and dogs. — Patrick White

We are creating a world where no parent will ever again have to choose between skipping meals and sending their kids to school — Sharad Vivek Sagar

They have said that we owe allegiance to Safety, that he is our Red Cross who will provide us with ointment and bandages for our wounds and remove the foreign ideas the glass beads of fantasy the bent hairpins of unreason embedded in our minds. — Janet Frame