Ampliative Argument Quotes

#1. I just wanted to be good at this. And competent. And tough. And, ultimately, just: anybody but me. I was tired of being a disaster. I was tired of being a trampled-on flower. I wanted to be awesome. That wasn't too much, was it?

Katherine Center

#2. No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.

Steven Pinker

#3. Only think of two things - the report of the pistol and the tape. When you hear one, run like hell until you break the other.

Sam Mussabini

#4. Playing Karen was so satisfying that it almost cured my acting bug completely. Not that I had conquered the world of acting. It was just that I had something to prove to myself when I started Will & Grace. Now I feel like, okay, well, I've satisfied that.

Megan Mullally

#5. It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#6. There are people who eat only organic food, and then there are people who don't have tons of money to waste. You

Jim Gaffigan

#7. Sanctification makes us holy and destroys the breed of sin, the love of sin and carnality. It makes us pure and whiter than snow. Bless His holy name!

William J. Seymour

#8. It's not what you do - it's the intensity of your feeling that determines how far you go in the spiritual life.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Death may whiten in sun or out of it.

Sylvia Plath

#10. I studied the smile, couldn't decide if it looked sincere or rehearsed. And that thought troubled me. I was good at reading people and their intentions, but only if I wasn't too invested. Once invested, I couldn't separate what I wished to be true from what was actually true.

Penny Reid

#11. People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

Billy Cannon

#13. Where's your sister? Chevy asks like he doesn't care about the answer, but unfortunately, he does.

Katie McGarry