Underacknowledged Quotes & Sayings

A Catholic understanding of priesthood is so strongly rooted in the historic actions of Jesus and in all their antecedents in the place of sacrifice in life. And those things ... they are rooted to the role of the man. — Vincent Nichols

Let's face it: part of being a grownup is that every day you have to choose between going out at night or staying home, and it is one of life's unhappy truths that there is not enough time to do both. — Nora Ephron

Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life. — Gene Baur

It is an underacknowledged truism that, just as you are what you eat, how and what you think depends on what information you are exposed to. — Tim Wu

There is a power in names. Olakunde told us of ashe-the power which runs through all things, subtle and flexible, which find its most potent expression in human utterance; so that it is a terrible thing to call down imprecations on an enemy, or to wish for anything but good, for what is said out loud is forged into truth. — M T Anderson

I've noticed over the past years of my writerly life that women writers in particular are discouraged in cleverly disguised forms from including the intellectual in their creative material way more than you would believe. — Lidia Yuknavitch

no one had to tell me anything. I know what I am — Stephenie Meyer

If none of God's saints were poor and tried, we should not know half so well the consolations of divine grace. When — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The effect of corruption I find most underacknowledged is a contraction not of economic possibility but of our moral universe. — Katherine Boo

In the 1950s and 1960s, it was a safe assumption that nearly everyone in your office had watched the same thing the previous night. — Chris Anderson

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised. — Neal Shusterman

Jason, as much as I'd like to believe that we're friends, I know I can't count on you. — Amber Dermont

A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things.
[Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.] — Horace

It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone. — A. Lee Martinez

If you're not hated by many, you're not good enough yet, because God hates and always hated the majority for good reasons. — Daniel Marques