Zurbriggen David Quotes & Sayings

He fashioned hell for the inquisitive. — Saint Augustine

Here I've given him a good eight inches and a shot at immortality and he'll turn on me the same way he did last year when I asked him to pose for a few nude sketches. Ingrate — David Sedaris

Then the only way out is through, Jamie said, and Stella started the truck. — Michelle Hodkin

It seems easier for her to just close the doors and not think about the stillness of the rooms behind them. — Colleen Hoover

God promises to meet our needs, not our greeds. — Steve Lawson

When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself. — Cornel West

The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers by their expressions and images; we must indicate what is true if we mean to write naturally, forcibly and delicately. — Jean De La Bruyere

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

And even those who claim to read the Bible literally and to lead their lives according to its precepts are, in actual practice, highly selective about which parts of the Bible they live by and which they don't. Jesus' condemnations of wealth and war are generally ignored; so are Levitical prohibitions on eating pork, wearing mixed fabrics and so forth. Though legalistic Christians accuse nonlegalistic Christians of selective interpretation and relativistic morality (of adjusting the Bible, in short, to suit their own lifestyles and prejudices), what is usually happening is that nonlegalists are, as the Baptist tradition puts it, reading the Bible with Jesus as their criterion, while the legalists are, without any philosophical consistency whatsoever, embracing those laws and doctrines that affirm their own predilections and prejudices and ignoring the rest. — Bruce Bawer

Doctrine severed from practice is dead; practice severed from doctrine is just another form of self-salvation and self-improvement. A disciple of Christ is a student of theology. — Michael S. Horton

The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack. — Bob Etheridge

Condoms seemed to her inherently wicked. But they were also inherently funny. They were like rubber gloves with only one finger, and every time she saw one she had to be severe with herself or she'd get the giggles, a terrifying thought because the man might think you were laughing at him, at his dick, at its size, and that would be fatal. — Margaret Atwood

To young mind, work seemed to be the price that was gladly paid for the privilege of living so closely with the earth. Work was a real conversation with the landscape. It was not an abuse or raiding of the landscape. It was amazing to learn how to work in this context. — John O'Donohue

I can hide, and my husband's just terrible at finding me. I do like to jump out from behind doors and scare him. — Katherine Heigl

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair? — Walker Percy