Penitential Quotes

#1. Must one first batter their ears, that they may learn to hear with their eyes? Must one clatter like kettledrums and penitential preachers? Or do they only believe the stammerer?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil, distress, trouble, fatigue
an exertion both painful and compulsory. Labor was our animal condition, struggling to survive in dirt and darkness.

Shoshana Zuboff

#3. But like the crusaders, who in the name of piety had carried out that dreadful massacre in Jerusalem, there were many citizens who failed to hear in those penitential sermons a call to mend their ways, and instead learnt to hate all those who didn't share their faith.

E.H. Gombrich

#4. In the right situation, highly formalized, high-suction ass-kissing not only comes all too naturally to me, it makes me breathless with a feeling of penitential power.

David Rakoff

#5. To Father Rothschild no passage was worse than any other. He thought of the sufferings of the saints, the mutability of human nature, the Four Last Things, and between whiles repeated snatches of the penitential psalms.

Evelyn Waugh

#6. Don't you dare touch yourself today. I want your orgasm and I plan on getting it later.

T.K. Leigh

#7. I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men.

Tawakkol Karman

#8. What we guard against around here is people saying, 'Let's think about it.' We make a decision. Then we act on it.

Sam Walton

#9. Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.

Henry Gee

#10. There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.

Tim Heidecker

#11. I have angel wings and a halo on my wrist, which I got done on my 30th birthday in memory of my brother.

Sheridan Smith

#12. Warner had more hands in his face than an OB-GYN delivering Vishnu's triplets!

Dennis Miller

#13. There are always consequences to the truth.

Patti Callahan Henry

#14. When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by talking about America's addiction to oil. You make the connection.

Gwen Ifill

#15. Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is
if it's just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.

Truman Capote

#16. If there's a good side of Islam, at the end of the day it serves evil.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

#17. It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

Simone Weil

#18. Either your troubles make you better, or they make you bitter. We must always examine what's going on in our hearts.

T.D. Jakes