Underachiever's Manifesto Quotes & Sayings

Whether one likes it or not, every reader is at the same time an interpreter. That is, most of us assume as we read that we also understand what we read. We also tend to think that our understanding is the same thing as the Holy Spirit's or human author's intent. However, we invariably bring to the text all that we are, with all of our experiences, culture, and prior understandings of words and ideas. Sometimes what we bring to the text, unintentionally to be sure, leads us astray, or else causes us to read all kinds of foreign ideas into the text. — Gordon D. Fee

But, this dark place is not the end. Remember that the darkness of night precedes the dawn. And as long as your heart still beats, this is not the death of it. You don't have to die here. Sometimes, the ocean floor is only a stop on the journey. And it is when you are at this lowest point, that you are faced with a choice. You can stay there at the bottom, until you drown. Or you can gather pearls and rise back up - stronger from the swim, and richer from the jewels. — Yasmin Mogahed

Now I'm this far up the ladder and I've got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it. — Karl Urban

Congress is a Mafia running a protection racket.. — John P. Wheeler III

What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before. — Steve Earle

I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man. — Alison Bechdel

Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult, have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains. — Alan Redpath

Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. — John Lubbock

The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness. — Guy Finley

I cant retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. Youd have to remove the music from me surgically - like you were taking out my appendix. — Ray Charles

Perfume is the art that makes memory speak — Francis Kurkdjian

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility. — Byron Dorgan

...she was, after all, a practical woman and the daughter of an economist. — Mary Doria Russell