Subduing Def Quotes & Sayings

If you don't think you've got the blues, just keep living, and if you don't think you're drunk, just keep drinking what you're drinking. — Buddy Guy

I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant. — Marcel Proust

The source of beauty in a man,
It is humbleness and grace;
Equality is the pearl of a king,
Justice his scepter;
Salvation is his crown. — Stephan Attia

Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying. — Martha MacIsaac

I don't know if I would call myself a religious human. — Zosia Mamet

He means to make his subjects merciful and wise; sorrow and struggle bringeth both. We will, he tells me, grow by grieving, live by dying, love by losing. The heart itself is the field of battle and the garden green. — Andrew Peterson

Pain is life. Pain is life. Pain is life. — C.L. Wilson

We know it is good to receive, and we have been blessed by receiving not only as children, but also as adults. Yet Jesus taught that it is more blessed to give than to receive (Acts 20:35), and part of growing up is learning the art of giving. If we fail to learn this art, we will live unfulfilled lives, and in the end, chains of bondage will replace the bonds that keep our communities together. If we just keep taking or even trading, we will squander ourselves. If we give, we will regain ourselves as fulfilled individuals and flourishing communities. — Miroslav Volf

Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit. — Alexander Whyte

Human race should have a common goal and that is to establish infinite peace in this world which we call home. — Debasish Mridha

But it's not only: What are you going to do about touring, it's: What are you going to do with your life? Is there a point to what we do? I think there is. Making music, creating beautiful things. We have to be in love with the good and the beautiful. If we are not, then you're in a nihilistic state. — Lou Reed

Perception is reality. — Carsten K. Rath

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place. — Christiane Amanpour

Allowing unelected judges to declare laws enacted by popularly elected legislatures unconstitutional and invalid seemed flagrantly inconsistent with free popular government. Such judicial usurpation, said Richard Dobbs Spaight, delegate to the Constitutional Convention from North Carolina, was "absurd" and "operated as an absolute negative on the proceedings of the Legislature, which no judiciary ought ever to possess." Instead of being governed by their representatives in the assembly, the people would be subject to the will of a few individuals in the court, "who united in their own persons the legislative and judiciary powers," making the courts more despotic than the Roman decemvirate or of any monarchy in Europe. — Gordon S. Wood

Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives. — Penelope Leach