Uncowed Antonym Quotes & Sayings

Wizards are a secretive lot. — Patricia Briggs

The idols of modern culture have had a profound influence on the shape of our work today. In traditional societies people found their meaning and sense of value by submitting their interests and sacrificing their desires to serve higher causes like God, family, and other people. In modern societies there is often no higher cause than individual interests and desires. This shift powerfully changed the role of work in people's lives - it now became the way we defined ourselves. Traditional cultures tended to see people's place on the social ladder as assigned by nature or convention, each family having its "proper place." That view had put too little stock in the role of individual talent, ambition, and hard work for determining the outcome of one's life. But modern society responded by putting too much stock in the autonomous person. — Timothy Keller

We look at some people as if they were special, gifted, divine. Nobody is special and gifted and divine.
No more than you are, no more than I am. The only difference, the very only one,
is that they have begun to understand what they really are and have begun to practice it. — Richard Bach

Creation was not finished at the dawn of this earth, but creation continues, and we have a lot to do to make the world a better place. — George Cadle Price

I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA. — Laurie Anderson

I would rather quit public life at seventy, and quit it forever, than to retain public life at a sacrifice to my own self-respect. I will not vote for any law which will make fair for me and foul for another. The blacklist is the most cruel form of oppression ever devised by man for the infliction of suffering upon his weaker fellows. — Joseph Gurney Cannon

School is practise for future life,practise makes perfect, nobody's perfect so why practise? — Green Day

Whenever one would see a little filly that caught his eye, he would look at her and simply say one word that would alert the others that she has been claimed and was strictly off-limits to the rest of the McCoys. Stepping closer to the table, he loudly proclaimed, "Tag!"
As soon as the word had left Aron's mouth, the younger men looked up at him in suprise. Issac bit back a snort, and Jacob simply said, "Thank God." Their brother has finally decided to come out of hiding. — Sable Hunter

...people live longer when they decide to become passionately involved in something beyond themselves. — Richard Foth

The way I talk to the puppets is real, and it's in the moment, and it's seeing what will happen. It's not something that is scripted. — Nina Conti

Chocolate didn't make stupid decisions. Chocolate didn't ask questions. Chocolate was the perfect companion. — Melissa Foster

I'm very interested in Ben Affleck as Batman. I actually think he's a great choice. — Robbie Amell

When words fail, the hammer drops,
living can never be its own excuse. — Michael Hogan