Belden Quotes

#1. The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

Douglas Coupland

#2. People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

Jackson Browne

#3. Allow others to give you loving care. Receive without guilt or apologies.

Doreen Virtue

#4. But chance has a taste for conspiracy.

Umberto Eco

#5. I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.

Zosia Mamet

#6. I'd be counting calories in my head while having conversations and doing crosswords.

Justine Bateman

#7. Intimacy in all human relationships - especially with God - can occur only as vulnerability and inadequacy are owned.

Belden C. Lane

#8. Passive voice is better than writing out a humongous number and taking the risk that your readers' brains will be numb by the time they get to the verb.

Mignon Fogarty

#9. Be pleased, gentlemen, to dispose of what belongs to yourselves as you think proper, but leave us the disposal of the fruit of our own toil, to use it or exchange it as we see best. Declaim on self-sacrifice as much as you choose, it is all very fine and very beautiful, but be at least consistent.

Frederic Bastiat

#10. If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend upon it that you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have.

Dwight L. Moody

#11. They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. A coach is someone who always makes you do what you don't want to do, so you can be who you've always wanted to be.

Leeman Bennett

#13. If I were a black liberal, I would be hailed, I guess. But I'm not. I mean, I think for myself. I want to make my own decisions.

Clarence Thomas

#14. They've already got a name for it, by the way. They're calling it the Flare.

James Dashner