James Mawdsley Quotes

#1. After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

H.L. Mencken

#2. A good
trap, like a good story, has to arise naturally from the environment.
It has to be seamless. If the prey suspects what's coming,
they'll bolt.

E.J. Patten

#3. The worse part of being lied to is when you realize you believed it.

Frank Ocean

#4. Joshua needed to eat something before embarking upon it, and hence stood in line behind an overtattooed prick who couldn't decide between banana and pumpkin bread, while the barista in a Che Guevara hat (yet presumably fluent in Middle fucking English) looked on indifferently.

Aleksandar Hemon

#5. A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting.

Jurgen Habermas

#6. That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.

Ann Voskamp

#7. I don't know about birds
nor do I know the history of fire.
But I believe that my solitude should have wings

Alejandra Pizarnik

#8. If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.

David Lloyd-Jones

#9. My father went south once, to answer the summons of a king. He never came home again.

George R R Martin

#10. When I was younger, I always did movies that teenagers would watch, not adults. I did 'Crazy/Beautiful' or comedies like 'Bring It On.'

Kirsten Dunst

#11. The Bible says, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him will not perish, but have everlasting life." - John 3:16 and in that moment I realized, "Wow, there's a love greater than what I know of in this world."

Christian Hosoi

#12. The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

Franz Grillparzer

#13. Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#14. There are two things I eat that I know I shouldn't: chocolate and ice cream. You only live once, so I am going to eat chocolate.

John Tomac

#15. Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.

Jonah Goldberg