Attesting Quotes

#1. R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of "requiescat in pace", attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than "reductus in pulvis".

Ambrose Bierce

#2. Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that the entire cosmos was created six thousand years ago. This is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue.

Sam Harris

#3. 31but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is bthe Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name. [30 aOr attesting miracles 31 bI.e. the Messiah]

Anonymous

#4. Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Herman Melville

#5. There was a very slight lilt to it, too, attesting to a childhood spent far from Lincolnshire, and Grace felt herself sway, as if she could fall forward, lightly, softly, and land somewhere else. Far, far from here.

Julia Quinn

#6. Faith in the self-attesting Christ of Scripture is the beginning, not the end result of wisdom.

Greg L. Bahnsen

#7. Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.

Ambrose Bierce

#8. Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

Frederick Henry Hedge

#9. Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

Leo Tolstoy

#10. It mattered to us both to have some point of reference in that strange place, some means of attesting to the effect it had on us. [p. 87]

Shirley Hazzard

#11. 'American Playhouse' is very supportive of writers. That's really why writers like to write for 'American Playhouse' for very little money. They care about making your play, your script, not some network production. We're treated like playwrights, not like fodder for some machine.

Terrence McNally

#12. But Keri, being loved enough is not adequate. Be loved more . . . make sure you are loved more than enough.

Samantha Christy

#13. Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations.

Daphne Du Maurier

#14. Encouragement is the fuel on which hope runs.

Zig Ziglar

#15. It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.

Dan Deacon

#16. Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing.

Adriana Trigiani

#17. Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact, reading it on my own and being my main company. I think Proust is the most intelligent person to ever have written a novel.

Edward St. Aubyn

#18. Forgive me, Cassie, but Jonas Marsden is hardly an example of well-adjusted behavior!

Karen Chance

#19. Heeeeeere kitty-kitty, stupid fucking kitty.

Carole Cummings