Sweet 16th Quotes & Sayings

Being offended has replaced baseball as our greatest national pastime. — Kim Hunt Harris

It's a completely irrational decision to drop out of school. — David Brooks

I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment. — Barney Frank

How to figure out the recipe of your life? Your body knows when it needs food. And it asks for it. But if your devouring self keeps asking for more food, pounds of unnecessary problems are added to your life. — Ruben Papian

Of a man who only wills the Good out of fear of punishment, it is necessary to say with special emphasis, that he fears what a man should not and ought not to fear: loss of money, loss of reputation, misjudgment by others, neglect, the world's judgment, the ridicule of fools, the laughter of the frivolous, the cowardly whining of consideration, the inflated triviality of the moment, the fluttering mist-forms of vapor. — Soren Kierkegaard

concept: we swim amongst the stars. their iridescent light fills me with a sense of peace i didn't know i was capable of. my fingers are covered in starlight — L.J. Buchanan

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will. — Samuel Rutherford

To me, true prosperity begins with feeling good about yourself. It is also the freedom to do what you want to do, when you want to do it. It is never an amount of money; it is a state of mind. Prosperity or lack of it is an outer expression of the ideas in your head. — Louise Hay

I feel like I'm neither a girl nor a boy. I don't feel like a man. — Ariel Pink

When you give up a bit of work don't (unless it is hopelessly bad) throw it away. Put it in a drawer. It may come in useful later. Much of my best work, or what I think my best, is the re-writing of things begun and abandoned years earlier. — C.S. Lewis

This is the best time to be an author. — Geraldine Solon

In Mencken's view, "religion belongs to a very early stage of human development, and ... its rapid decay in the world since the Reformation is evidence of genuine progress" ("The Ascent of Man"). — H.L. Mencken

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history. — Pope John Paul II

It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus' fold. — Frederica Mathewes-Green