Perfunctorily Part Quotes

#1. The would-be maturing believer is not challenged to any adult faith or service to the world, much less mystical union. Everyone ends up in a muddled middle, where "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity," as William Butler Yeats put it.

Richard Rohr

#2. When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.

Madeleine L'Engle

#3. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day.

Walter Lippmann

#4. Don't thank me just yet. There is much more to come for us. You can thank me when we're old and grey.

Olivia L. Thomas

#5. Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting with it when small.

Laozi

#6. red-nosed reindeer did not stand a chance.

Rick Riordan

#7. Do not love money more than yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. No one saves an e-mail, because it's so inherently impersonal. I worry about posterity in general. All the great love letters - from Simone de Beauvoir to Sartre, from Samuel Clemens to his wife, Olivia - I don't know, I always think about what will be lost -

Gillian Flynn

#9. I'd rather entertain people than offend them.

Sam Kinison