Tainment Weekly Quotes & Sayings

86. I get angry when believers unhesitatingly attribute every good thing in the world to God - and then respond to bad things by saying, "God works in mysterious ways." If God's ways are so mysterious, and we can't begin to understand his thinking behind tsunamis and drought and pediatric cancer, then what makes you think you understand his intentions when it comes to pretty sunsets or cute puppies or helping you find the peanut butter? — Greta Christina

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury. — Merton Miller

Eventually, I'll build a ranch and raise horses. — Jeff Fahey

Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness. — John O'Donohue

I think I'm less disciplined than a lot of other people, I'm afraid, but on the other hand, I've written a lot of books. — Sue Miller

Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking. — E.W. Howe

I think you look ... very nice. the way he said it, with a slight pause and that sexy accent, made Sharona forget all about jet lag. Instead, she was on high flirt alert. — Ophelia London

I would hope that we could have this in an adult fashion and stop demagogueing the issue anytime you talk about any substantive reforms that will actually save social security and save Medicare and save the system from imploding on itself. — Ben Quayle

Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. — John Locke

Pharmakon means drug, but as Jacques Derrida and others have pointed out, the word in Greek famously refuses to designate whether poison or cure. It holds both in the bowl. — Maggie Nelson

Past is a picture that has been viewed already, and there's nothing more to learn from it, so we need to stop looking at the same picture again and again and start making a better picture for the future, so that when someday we look back the picture's made by us, instead of regretting we cherish it. — Alamvusha

Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. — Liane Moriarty

I think that's the real reason, sometimes, that people talk about my stories as being scary, because if you compare what goes on in my stories to what goes on in popular movies and popular songs, it's very mild. — Mary Gaitskill