Vetted Sources Quotes & Sayings

Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock

In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it. — Mary Ruefle

I happen to represent Enron here in Houston. We have many good corporate citizens here in Houston. Enron happened to have been one. — Sheila Jackson Lee

Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has. — Joseph Joubert

Object to that as well. The judge said, — James Patterson

Sometimes the smartest thing you can do is realize you're not the smartest one in the room. 08-30-2011 — Jan Thomas

There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion. — P. J. O'Rourke

As a human being, I was born on the brink of personal destruction, and I have spent my life dancing along the edge of that cliff. — Brian Herbert

Important 2 me: Ones that know thyself is extremely powerful. — Katina Marshell Cotton-Sliwa

Sadness is the heart withdrawing to seek shelter from the pain. — Richelle E. Goodrich

If this is so, why should any man bother about moral rules and regulations? Why should any man conform to laws formulated by a people whose outlook on the universe probably differed diametrically from his own? Why should any man obey a regulation which is denounced, by his common-sense, as a hodge-podge of absurdities, and why should he model his whole life upon ideals invented to serve the temporary needs of a forgotten race of some past age? These questions Nietzsche asked himself. His conclusion was a complete rejection of all fixed codes of morality, and with them of all gods, messiahs, prophets, saints, popes, — H.L. Mencken

He who conquers his wrath overcomes his greatest enemy. — Publilius Syrus

Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique. — Willa Cather

He slowly turned around. "What is love? In English." I raised my brows. "Love, in English, is love?" "What is it in Spanish?" I was so enthralled by his hypnotic eyes, I could barely remember. "Amore?" He shook his head ever so slightly. "No. Love in Spanish is you. — Karina Halle

A brick could be used in a levitation demonstration. The best way to keep it afloat, along with the American Dream, is with debt and denial. — Jarod Kintz

Separating fact and fiction in Inca history is impossible, because virtually all the sources available are Spanish accounts of stories that had already been vetted by the Inca emperors to highlight their own heroic roles. Imagine a history of modern Iraq written by Dick Cheney and based on authorized biographies of Sadam Hussein published in Arabic, and you'll get some idea of what historians face. — Mark Adams