Unserviceable Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour. — W. Somerset Maugham

The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of the veriest sinner. It also reaches to the throne of the eternal, or man could not he lifted from his degraded condition, and our necessities would not be met, our desires would be unsatisfied. — Ellen G. White

Is this idea of the non-fruit-bearing Christian something that we have concocted in order to make Christianity "easier"? — Francis Chan

The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where there were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to "propaganda". — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Mobile didn't create more unknowns for web designers. It just forced us to recognize the unknowns that were already there. — Jeremy Keith

I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood. — Barry Hannah

The military hospital is the most cheerful of militaty buildings because there are so few uniforms inside. — Alfred Jarry