X D 1 F Quotes & Sayings

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money. — Don Simpson

I want to be anonymous ... my ambition is to be completely forgotten, — Bob Kaufman

To televisionize any serious problem, the program directors face the task of making the message 'go down smooth' until the audience is delivered to the commercial. — Arlie Russell Hochschild

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. — Penelope Lively

You're a mad scientist,' said Maggie, in what may well have been intended as a reassuring tone. 'We don't expect you to be nice. We just go to bed every night hoping you won't mutate us before we wake up.'
Dr. Abbey blinked at her. 'That's ... almost sweet. In a disturbing sort of a way. — Mira Grant

I've never lived my life by the expectations society puts on you. When something doesn't feel right or isn't going the way it should, I listen to my instincts and change it. — Fatima Robinson

I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store. — Reinhold Messner

Test the Spirits 1 JOHN 4 Beloved, t do not believe every spirit, but u test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for v many w false prophets x have gone out into the world. 2By this you know the Spirit of God: y every spirit that confesses that z Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3and every spirit a that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and b now is in the world already. 4Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for c he who is in you is greater than d he who is in the world. 5 e They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and f the world listens to them. 6We are from God. g Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know h the Spirit of truth and i the spirit of error. — Anonymous

Dream interpretation were ways of converting our little personal miseries into big robust myths — Justin Evans

Nicodemus is a murderous murdering murderer ... — Jim Butcher

When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men. — Pat Conroy

The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years. — Michael Caine

t can be eye-opening to think of some of the unrealistic expectations we hold ourselves to. These are the "shoulds" we set up in our lives which then become the breeding ground for embarrassment: I should never spill a drink; I should never lose my footing, even on slippery pavement; I should never misunderstand another person's behavior (the latter misunderstanding having constituted my "chrysalis crime.") — Toni Bernhard

Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans! — Robert E.Lee

Being a politician, he was never dissuaded from giving any body his opinion by the mere fact that they were not inclined to hear it. — Susanna Clarke

Now if you excuse me, I have better things to do than listen to adolescent agonizing. — J.K. Rowling

8But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and t a thousand years as one day. 9 u The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise v as some count slowness, but w is patient toward you, [1] x not wishing that any should perish, but y that all should reach repentance. 10But z the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then a the heavens will pass away with a roar, and b the heavenly bodies [2] will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed. [3] 11Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, c what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, 12 d waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and e the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! 13But according to his promise we are waiting for f new heavens and a new earth g in which righteousness dwells. — Anonymous