Witty Pessimism Quotes & Sayings

You're saying you think one of my staff might be a terrorist." She kept her face neutral, but couldn't resist asking the next question, like poking at a sore tooth. "Is this the first organization you've visited?" "Yes. — Lisa Nicholas

Doing well is a result of doing good. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Just when I get my church all sorted out, sheep from the goats, saved from the damned, hopeless from the hopeful, somebody makes a move, get out of focus, cuts loose, and I see why Jesus never wrote systematic theology. So you and I can give thanks that the locus of Christian thinking appears to be shifting from North America and northern Europe where people write rules and obey them, to places like Africa and Latin America where people still know how to dance. — William Henry Willimon

When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out. — Christy Turlington

[Helmut] Kohl said Europe must return to being a community committed to stability and the rule of law. — Martin Schulz