Vpaintegral Quotes & Sayings

If following Christ has never cost you anything, you're not following Him. — Tim Conway

Best friends are the people who know us best. — Gillian Flynn

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion. — Erica Jong

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. — Don DeLillo

It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we do so at our peril. — J. William Fulbright

They may look like dog vomit, but they ain't dumb. — Edward W. Robertson

Capitalism is not merely a system for the efficient production and distribution of goods and services; it also incarnates and promotes a particular moral order, an institutionalized normative worldview comprising and fostering particular assumptions, narratives, commitments, beliefs, values, and goals. — Christian Smith

The bombing in Oklahoma City has focused renewed attention on the rhetoric that's been coming from the right and those who cater to angry white men. Right-wing talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Bob Grant, Oliver North, G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Reagan and others take to the air every day with basically the same format: Detail a problem, blame the government or a group and invite invective from like-minded people. Never do most of the radio hosts encourage outright violence, but the extent to which their attitudes may embolden or encourage some extremists has clearly become an issue. — Bryant Gumbel

The windows on the Dovetail side of the gatehouse were larger, and she could see the two corgi dogs outside, peering in through the lead latticework, flabbergasted that they had, through some enormous lacuna in procedure, been left on the outside, wagging their tails somewhat uncertainly, as if, in a world that allowed such mistakes, nothing could be counted on. — Neal Stephenson

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf. — Justin Cronin

So many times I've made myself stupid with the fear of being outsmarted. — James Richardson

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Act so that every action of yours should be capable of becoming an universal rule of action for all men. — W. Somerset Maugham

I do not have a hero complex. I have always been attracted to strong, independent women. I like a girl who has her shit together. No strings. Simple. Confident. But the way she nearly sighed the word 'broken'--as if it was her sole identifier, as if it's branded on her somehow, as if admitting this has cost her dearly, shamed her--just killed me a little bit. I want to save her. I want to be her hero. I want to make her see she is so much more than her damaged past. — Cheryl McIntyre