Biblical Justification Quotes

#1. On the floors above Delivery, in flowerless rooms, women lay recovering from hysterectomies and mastectomies. Teenage girls with burst ovarian cysts nodded out on morphine. It was all around me from the beginning, the weight of female suffering, with its biblical justification and vanishing acts.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#2. Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

Richard Bach

#3. This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end

Heinrich Heine

#4. I feel guilty when I feed them unhealthy food they like. I feel guilty when I feed them healthy food they don't like. I feel guilty when I drop them off at school. I feel guilty when I pick them up at school. I feel guilty mostly for writing this book instead of spending time with them.

Jim Gaffigan

#5. Skinny girls have skinny minds

Ann Brashares

#6. I think I have a part of myself which is a woman. When girls are together, they speak completely differently than when there is a guy around. But, with me, they don't see this masculine thing stopping them, and there is not this boundary.

Christian Louboutin

#7. It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance.

Winston Churchill

#8. I have this red cardigan that my friend Coco gave me that has holes for thumbs. It's my cozy sweater. I wear it a lot.

Sharon Van Etten

#9. Johnston's books are beautifully written and among the funniest I have ever read.

Annie Dillard

#10. In the end, I'm only going next door.
To the end of the corridor, into my favorite room.
And from there, out into the garden.
And there I will become light and go wherever I want.

Nina George

#11. It's not just children who need heroes.

Tamora Pierce

#12. A person who is seeking to feel justification for some action might move from "What you've done angers me" to "What you've done is wrong." Popular justifications include the moral high ground of righteous indignation and the more simple equation known by its biblical name: an eye for an eye.

Gavin De Becker

#13. He let her nipple slide out of his mouth. She pulled him back, but he was more interested in running his gaze over the sheen of wetness on her breast, wetness he had caused. A surge of possessiveness gripped him by the throat. Yes, she was most definitely his ...

Nalini Singh

#14. If you do not regard the great confessions and catechisms of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as being biblical in their teaching on justification, then you should probably do the decent thing and become a Catholic.

Anonymous

#15. He had performed that last service that a man can perform for a friend - he had told the truth about him.

David Eddings

#16. Customs are generally unselfish.
Habits are nearly always selfish.

G.K. Chesterton