Supersessional Quotes & Sayings

She is no longer sure that people are always improved by what they read. Furthermore, she is not sure that writers who venture into the darker territories of the soul always return unscathed. — J.M. Coetzee

After Harding's death, the taciturn vice president, Calvin Coolidge, moved into the White House. In contrast to his predecessor's political cronyism and outgoing style, Coolidge personified austere rectitude. As vice president "Silent Cal" often sat through official functions without uttering a word. A dinner partner once challenged him by saying, "Mr. Coolidge, I've made a rather sizable bet with my friends that I can get you to speak three words this evening." Responded Coolidge icily, "You lose. — James A. Henretta

The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in ... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking. — Charlton Heston

More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers. It was commitment that thinned the ranks. — Charles R. Swindoll

His Lady sad to see his sore constraint,
Cried out, "Now now Sir knight, shew what ye bee,
Add faith unto your force, and be not faint:
Strangle her, else she sure will strangle thee."
That when he heard, in great perplexitie,
His gall did grate for griefe and high distaine,
And knitting all his force got one hand free,
Wherewith he grypt her gorge with so great paine,
That soone to loose her wicked bands did her constraine. — Edmund Spenser

I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy. — Marat Safin

I take the position that true faith is not a supersessional knowledge. It cannot discard the intellect. — E.L. Doctorow

Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself. — Jaggi Vasudev

He was a real-life soldier playing soldier from his memories of made up soldiers. — Alex London

It feels like it feels like it's been five minutes, but it hasn't been five minutes yet. — Heather Hall

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. — Heinrich Heine

To me, some people feel like the lives they've lived are novels. With Jack, I wanted to get my hands on the book and feverishly work my way through the pages until I got to the end. — L. H. Cosway

We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent. Authority here is to be controlled by public opinion, not public opinion by authority. — Robert H. Jackson

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes. — Brandon Sanderson

The surest way to empower the new terrorist gangs would be to withdraw from U.S. diplomatic missions. — David Ignatius