Estienne De La Quotes

#1. Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.

John Dewey

#2. The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth

N. T. Wright

#3. A fastidious taste is best indoors, away from nature and the city.

Mason Cooley

#4. You have to believe in yourself despite the evidence.

Kent Haruf

#5. Of course if no one had ever been exposed to dangerous ideas from scandalous women, Christianity itself would not have had its unique beginning nor its glorious history, but whatever.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#6. Lying to other people isn't hard. It's lying
to yourself that's the trouble.

Jonathan Culver

#7. You'd been petting a stuffed dog?' she said 'A dead one?'
'It was a really well stuffed dog' I clarified. 'I have seen some bad taxidermy. This was top-notch work. It would have fooled anyone.

Maureen Johnson

#8. It's emotions. Sometimes you feel, sometimes you don't. You can't force yourself into feeling something, can you?

Sarvesh Jain

#9. Any number of things were sure to go wrong - from tripping on the stairs and flashing the prince a sexy metal thigh,[ ... ]

Marissa Meyer

#10. I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.

Sylvia Plath

#11. Good kitchens are not about size; they are about ergonomics and light.

Nigel Slater