Assayed Quotes

#1. As silver in a crucible and gold in a pan, so our lives are assayed by GOD.

Eugene H. Peterson

#2. When I'm on set, I never really get intimidated by people.

Jeremy Luke

#3. Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.

Pope John Paul II

#4. Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

Oliver Herford

#5. A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound they create. This is different from referencing music.

Brian Chippendale

#6. Outside were the eucalyptus trees, like lace against the sky. If it were only possible to lie against them, light and bodiless, sink into their softness, deeper and deeper, lost in them, buried, never come back again ...

Shirley Jackson

#7. Reality, unlike perception, cannot be changed by propaganda.

Charles Hugh Smith

#8. Women shouldn't deny their dark side. Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they're beautiful. You'll have to approach them. Drink a glass of wine with them, take them for a walk on the beach, examine yourself.

Tori Amos

#9. This is because white people need to show off the books that they have read. Just as hunters will mount the heads of their kills, white people need to let people know that they have made their way through hundreds or even thousands of books.

Christian Lander

#10. Every day you have the freedom to pursue what you wish to become.

Steven Redhead

#11. When in doubt, look to Jesus.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#12. My family ... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

Emeril Lagasse

#13. I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.

David Levithan

#14. When a smoker says he wants to quit but can't, what he's really saying is, "I want to quit but I want even more not to suffer the agony of withdrawal." To argue otherwise is to jettison any lingering notion of personal responsibility.

Jonathan Franzen

#15. I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.

Maya Angelou