Waxwing Literary Quotes & Sayings

I would argue that healthy doubt (questioning one's beliefs) is perhaps the best defense against unhealthy doubt (questioning God). When we know how to make a distinction between our ideas about God and God himself, our faith remains safe when one of those ideas is seriously challenged. — Rachel Held Evans

I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it. — Augusten Burroughs

Rules serve no purpose; they can only do harm. Not only must the artist's mind be clear, it must also be free. His fancy should not be hindered and weighed down by a mechanical servility to such rules. — Federico Zuccari

It seems that nothing is more difficult for the average man to bear than the feeling of not being identified with a larger group. — Erich Fromm

But there are times when patience proves at fault. — Robert Browning

Confidence sells
people believe in those who believe in themselves. No one wants to be stuck in a room with other people who feel like they don't deserve to be there. Stop wondering if you're good enough. Know you are, and start acting like it. — Simon Black

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. — Warren Bennis

If there were any way for me to become human for you - no matter what the price was, I would pay it. — Stephenie Meyer

Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

bomb on the footpath used by RUC foot patrols, and then use the AKM to machine-gun them. As the newsreader read the last few words, I felt tears come to my eyes, knowing that some poor kids could have been caught up in it, hurt, maimed or even worse. I felt so angry that the IRA could put the lives of kids, kids like mine, in such danger that, at that moment, I didn't care what the IRA did to me. The — Martin McGartland

I can say without melodrama or malice that Hollywood ruined my life. — Jerome Charyn