Piersanti Quotes

#1. Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness: Satan, the world system, and our own lustful "flesh" tendencies.

Charles Stanley

#2. SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. I want more than a one-nighter with a meal plan.

N.M. Silber

#4. Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

Jean Paul

#5. One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#6. I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.

Al Yankovic

#7. I saw you dancing out the ocean
Running fast along the sand
A spirit born of earth and water
Fire flying from your hands

Elton John

#8. Don't stop now," Rehv said. "You've already jumped off the building. The landing isn't getting any softer."
Montrag frowned. "I fail to view this with your kind of levity."
"Who's laughing."

-Rehv & Montrag

J.R. Ward

#9. Terrible things are done in the name of religion, without a doubt, but it was not religion but science that brought the world itself to the brink of destruction.

Chris Beckett

#10. This violent state of mind.
This violent state of mine.

Don Winslow

#11. Girl of Emerald, no man can tame. Burn down the world, consumed by flames.

Betsy Schow

#12. In the most secret heart of every intellectual ... there lies hidden ... the hope of power, the desire to bring his ideas to reality by imposing them on his fellow man.

Lionel Trilling

#13. Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity.
"No," she said, her voice quivering with anger, "but I will write to your mother.

J.K. Rowling

#14. The facts in this story are true insofar as any memory is ever truthful, but I have made every effort to protect friends and students, baptizing them with new names and disguising them perhaps even from themselves, changing and interchanging facets of their lives so that their secrets are safe.

Azar Nafisi