Wechelderzande Quotes & Sayings

I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt. — Leon Panetta

I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me. — Harlan Ellison

I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The trouble with some of us is that we love preaching, but we are not always careful to make sure that we love the people to whom we are actually preaching. If you lack this element of compassion for the people you will also lack the pathos which is a very vital element in all true preaching. Our Lord looked out upon the multitude and 'saw them as sheep without a shepherd', and was 'filled with compassion'. And if you know nothing of this you should not be in a pulpit, for this is certain to come out in your preaching. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so. — Arthur Guiterman

When we presume to lie for the benefit of others, we have decided that we are the best judges of how much they should understand about their own lives - about how they appear, their reputations, or their prospects in the world. — Sam Harris

It often puzzles me when people think that matters connected with sex ought to be suppressed. Sex itself cannot be suppressed, and the efforts to do it, it seems to me, result in greater damage than it can do itself. After all, it was not an invention of man, but of God. — Maxwell Perkins

There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things. — William Dean Howells

They were a mother's words, words I would say to my own daughter if I were concerned for her — Tracy Chevalier