Despondently In A Sentence Quotes

#1. I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is kicking in the womb of creation right now, any time now. Pay attention.

Eugene H. Peterson

#2. Kids are a pain in the ass.

Harold Robbins

#3. Pull my trigger, I get bigger, then I'm lots of fun. I'm your gun, I'm your gun, gun, gun.

Alice Cooper

#4. The Tao is like a well; used but never used up.

Laozi

#5. She would always say that people who try to control people and change people's habits are the ones that make all the trouble. If you don't like somebody, walk away, she said, but don't try and make them like you.
Harriet, on what Ole Golly says

Louise Fitzhugh

#6. Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia.

Richard Wilbur

#7. Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.

Edward Tufte

#8. You cannot compromise unless people talk to you.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#9. You could've married the god of doctors or the god of lawyers, but noooo. You had to eat the pomegranate.

Rick Riordan

#10. Even the man whom we think we know best . . . is at bottom a stranger to us. He is different. The most we can do, and the best, is to have at least some inkling of his otherness, to respect it, and to guard against the outrageous stupidity of wishing to interpret it (1928, p. 220-221).

Anonymous

#11. Looking back over nearly a quarter of a century, she saw that that had been the characteristic of her life -passivity, adaptability to others.

Doris Lessing

#12. Being a dad is not summed up by requiring compliance or obedience; it is, at its most basic level, pointing your children to the God who has made it all OK and saves lost sinners on account of Christ.

Scott Keith

#13. I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don't eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff.

Ellen DeGeneres

#14. Custom doth make dotards of us all.

Thomas Carlyle