Taylor Dowd Quotes & Sayings

The love of popularity holds you in a vice. — Juvenal

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal. — Lena Dunham

Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout. — Thomas Sydenham

that we die, our very humanity slayed, whenever we choose to remain silent in the face of tyranny. — Okey Ndibe

As people, we have forgotten to be people. We know how to be doctors, lawyers, nurses, teachers, we know what to do, we know what to buy, but how do I just sit with you in your pain? How do I sit with you in your vulnerability and not betray you, not abuse you? We do not know how to do that, even in our homes. — Iyanla Vanzant

As artists, you always want to push yourself. There's always new territory. — Tatiana Maslany

The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. — Jose Canseco

By meditating, you are beginning to act and every action which is pleasing to God brings you closer to the actualization of your God-given vision — Sunday Adelaja

My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever changing view. — Carole King

I think Willa Cather did a short story called "Paul's Case," and in it, when he finally commits suicide, it says, "He surrendered to the black design of things." And that's what I anticipate death will be: a totally unconscious void in which you float through eternity with no particular consciousness of anything. I think once around is enough. I don't want to start it all over again. — Rod Serling

Plan B. You've always got to have a Plan B. — Sylvester Stallone

The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality. — Jeffrey Tucker

See confusion as confusion. Acknowledge suffering as suffering. Feel pain and sorrow and divisiveness. Experience anger or fear or shock for what they are. But you don't have to think of them as evil - as intrinsically bad, as needing to be destroyed or driven from our midst. On the contrary, they need to be absorbed, healed, made whole. (15) — Steve Hagen

The fate of Susan Pevensie indicates some sort of crazed, deranged Manichaeism. Here's a simple test: What is the greatest Christian virtue? Well, it's charity, isn't it? It's love. If somebody who knew nothing about Christian doctrine, and who had been told that Lewis was a great Christian teacher, read all the way through those books, would he get that message? No. — Philip Pullman

No matter how we may rationalize the practice [of homosexuality] ... Romans 1 makes it clearly the product of a reprobate mind ... I am not exonerating all heterosexual activity ... When we come to Christ, we are called upon to repent of our sins and no longer to practice the ungodly patterns of living. — Billy Graham