Attesting To Quotes

#1. Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.

Matthew Henry

#2. 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

#3. The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.

William Cowper

#4. Proceed very carefully with what you're about to say," Roth advised softly. "That's my girl you're about to insult, and I'm not going to be happy about that. At all.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#5. 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

#6. I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds of films, dramas, romance. I'll watch comedies. I like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. I'd like to meet them.

Barkhad Abdi

#7. Where no effort is necessary, the least effort spoils things.

Marty Rubin

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

Leo Tolstoy

#9. ...A man's religion and love life were nobody else's concern so long as neither of them gouged out some innocent bystander's eyes.

Douglas C. Jones

#10. 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

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Greg L. Bahnsen

#13. Being oppressed means the absence of choices

Bell Hooks

#14. 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

#15. One of the greatest enemies to vision is sight!

Myles Munroe

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

Herman Melville

#17. 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

#18. Be a leader, not a follower. Never let anyone tell you what you can and cannot be.

Vernon Davis

#19. It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification.

Sunday Adelaja

#20. I warn you, I'm a terrible housekeeper.

Grace Lee Boggs

#21. You people don't know what the truth is! It's there, just under their bullshit, but you never look! That's what I hate most about this fucking city
LIES ARE NEWS AND TRUTH IS OBSOLETE!

Warren Ellis

#22. There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free."

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#23. 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