Kevin Sessums Quotes

#1. The stage is yours, my dear Aaronic Priesthood boys. Are you ready and willing to play your part? The Lord needs every able young man to prepare and recommit, starting tonight, to be worthy of a call from the prophet of God to serve a mission.

Ronald A. Rasband

#2. Some people say you have to be a Christian to be saved. I had to stop being Christian to be saved.

Kevin Sessums

#3. I find myself applying the addict's impulse to how I cruise. I don't look at the ass. If I see a hot guy walking towards me I look at his arm, and if he has a vein I fantasize about shooting up with him.

Kevin Sessums

#4. People who aren't addicts want to know why I became one. They ask whether I had a midlife crisis. I'm only speaking for myself now, but I've stopped asking why and how. It's all about surrender and acceptance. It doesn't matter why I am an addict.

Kevin Sessums

#5. If anyone tells you prayer never works...don't believe it.
It most certainly always does...when you truly believe it

Timothy Pina

#6. I was raped. That was a hard thing to write about. I never owned that part of it. Guys don't look at themselves as being raped. We're not raised that way.

Kevin Sessums

#7. When one person mentors, two lives are changed.

Kevin Sessums

#8. I am a theist. I live life between that "a" and the "t." It's a vast little space.

Kevin Sessums

#9. What I'm not about is exploiting women.

Callie Khouri

#10. No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

Vladimir Nabokov

#11. There's always a door you don't get in. I'm a star in my own right for certain things. I'll own that. During Oscar weekend I did fabulous things. But there's still one inner sanctum I'm not allowed in. That's the one I'm fixated on.

Kevin Sessums

#12. I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student insurance does not cover contraception for the purpose of preventing pregnancy.

Sandra Fluke

#13. I haven't had sex in two and a half years. A guy I met in San Francisco gave me a sympathy blow job. It didn't really work. I said, "You're just doing this 'cause you feel sorry for me." We stopped in the middle.

Kevin Sessums

#14. I grew up working for the minimum wage at Hardee's and knows first hand how important the minimum wage is. I support a state based minimum wage so every state can set their own minimum wage based on their cost of living.

Joni Ernst

#15. I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.

Iris Apfel

#16. While ignorance might be bliss, apathy can be deadly.

Todd Stocker

#17. Sometimes if I am walking down the street and thinking about my panoply of God, Ganesha, Parvati [Ganesha's mother], I say "Lucifer," because he belongs in that panoply. I miss him. That's why I'm a theist.

Kevin Sessums

#18. I was raped: I said no and he wouldn't stop. I also had a scar on my back and blood coming out of my ass. To some that's just rough sex. Some would read that sentence and be turned on by that: the 51st Shade of Gay.

Kevin Sessums

#19. Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.

Pat Nixon

#20. ...My taut heart
lurches heavily, like a sack in a cart, clattering
downhill, towards a cliff, towards an abyss!
It can't be stopped!

Vladimir Nabokov

#21. Relaxing is important; I would like to do more! Golf is a pretty good attempt, but good television, I find, is a great way to chill out and let it do the thinking for you. As long as the programme has got some substance and is well made, happy as a par round of 72!

Mark Hadlow

#22. She's sleeping now, happy as a kitten in a patch of sun.

Kristin Cashore

#23. I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative.

Kevin Sessums

#24. I have opinions about the differences between Memphis barbecue and Texas barbecue. Put me in the kitchen and you'll see how Southern I can be.

Chris Hardwick

#25. To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.

Kevin Sessums

#26. I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.

Kevin Sessums

#27. Hollywood needs peripheral people like me. You're not of that world, but you're needed.

Kevin Sessums

#28. Yet torture is above all an art, an artistic discipline just like literature , cinema, or contemporary dance. All detained in the City-State ghettos bitterly missed the torturers of yesteryears, those monsters who worked with the precision of a Swiss watch-maker.

Fiston Mwanza Mujila

#29. One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my bumper sticker.

Kevin Sessums