Doperide Quotes

#1. A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

Francesco Petrarca

#2. Resurrection is the central tenet of the Christian faith. And it isn't something we just celebrate on Easter. Resurrection is something we celebrate every day in every way.

Mark Batterson

#3. All our senses feed the brain, and if it diets mainly on cruelty and suffering, how can it remain healthy?

Diane Ackerman

#4. He took [the book] up, and found himself plunged in an atmosphere unlike any he had ever breathed in books; so warm, so rich, and yet so ineffably tender, that it gave a new and haunting beauty to the most elementary of human passions.

Edith Wharton

#5. I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.

Ice-T

#6. Through wind, and tempest, storm, and rain; The calm shall be buried inside of me; A warm stone, heavy and dry; The root, the source, a weapon against pain

Lauren Oliver

#7. Regret or remorse of the wrong we have done should be in a positive spirit of changing, turning towards God with humility.

Radhanath Swami

#8. I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice

Peter Rollins

#9. There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.

Judi Dench

#10. The past is always beautiful. So, for that matter, is the future. Only the present hurts, and we carry it around like an abscess of suffering, our compassion between two infinities of happiness and peace.

Michel Houellebecq

#11. Please, please, please Mr. Fireman? Can I play with your hose?" -Sammy Mauger

Drew Zachary

#12. I journeyed to a place where it's always raining cupcakes. I didn't need a passport, but I met a lot of interesting people and experienced new things. Even though the trip was a little bumpy, I got there just fine.

Lisa Schroeder

#13. I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'

Natasha Lyonne

#14. So what indeed! The lesson I myself learned over and over again when teaching at the college and then the prison was the uselessness of information to most people, except as entertainment. If facts weren't funny or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.

Kurt Vonnegut