Testily Def Quotes & Sayings

I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead. — Peter Kreeft

When you walk around feeling quietly upset, frustrated, angry or some other negative emotion, people around you will detect it to some degree or another, even if only subconsciously. — Sam Owen

Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven. — L.M. Montgomery

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me. — Jonathan Taylor Thomas

I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed. — Scott Avett

A friend is a bird who can understand you and sing along with you even when you lose your voice. — Debasish Mridha

To a bystander like me, those who made 190 million pounds deliberately underselling the shares of HBOS, in spite of its very strong capital base, and drove it into the bosom of Lloyds TSB Bank, are clearly bank robbers and asset strippers. — John Sentamu

I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years. — Barney Ross

The sacrificial part of the Greek religion had to do with submitting to the wild chaotic world beyond one's own will; getting used to the idea that your rational plans will be knocked around by larger forces. The ecstatic-ritual part of ancient Greek religion was a kind of throwing oneself into the chaos, not pitting your rationality against the tempestuous world, but rather leaving your rationality on the shore, letting the waves toss you about, and coming to identify with the waves, with the storm, with the weather. — Jennifer Michael Hecht

I didn't even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn't need one to know her. (Eric) — Shannon A. Thompson

I did tell Jack about the talk I'd had with Dane, and he listened closely. I realized that although Jack comprehended Dane's views, on a visceral level he didn't get him at all. "He should have fought for you," Jack said. "He should have tried to hand me my own ass."
"What would that have accomplished?" I asked. "It's ultimately my choice, isn't it?"
"Yeah, you get the choice. But that doesn't change the fact that he should have come after me like a damn Viking for taking his woman."
"You haven't taken me," I protested.
He slid me a purposeful glance. "Yet."
-Jack & Ella — Lisa Kleypas

As with all inferior things, this part of the city was given an adjective while the rest stole the noun. — Gloria Steinem

Turn a corner and you know you're already there. — Haruki Murakami

I am all about health ... and to me, size is not what defines your health. — Teri Hatcher