Unspirational Quotes & Sayings

As a believer involved in any premarital relationship, you must assume the other person does not belong to you - that he or she may ultimately belong to another. Until marriage vows are exchanged, there are no guarantees. You should operate as if you are getting to know another man's future wife or another woman's future husband. Treat them with the respect you hope someone is showing your future spouse, — Doug Rosenau

You can't reason against it. Even if it wasn't in our culture, there would still be an instinct to protest the defenseless, regardless of whether they're female or male, young or old. — Sarah J. Maas

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo. — Harold Pinter

We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God. Nothing. — David Platt

If you do not have the possibility of abandoning your religion, you do not enjoy the possibility of freely embracing it, either. — Paul Berman

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too. — Roy Campanella

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word. — Bob Edwards

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer. — Patti Smith

What a contrast between the stern and desolate poetry of Ossian, and that of Chaucer, and even of Shakespeare and Milton, much more of Dryden, and Pope, and Gray! Our summer of English poetry, like the Greek and Latin before it, seems well advanced towards its fall, and laden with the fruit and foliage of the season, with bright autumnal tints, but soon the winter will scatter its myriad clustering and shading leaves, and leave only a few desolate and fibrous boughs to sustain the snow and rime, and creak in the blasts of age. — Henry David Thoreau

I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town. — Aaron Paul

No one ever complained about a fat brain. No one ever accused their brain of being too short or too tall, too wide or too narrow. Or ugly. It either worked or it didn't, and mine worked just fine. — Lissa Price

The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq. — Bashar Al-Assad