Posties Rejects Quotes

#1. If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.

Susie Orbach

#2. Compassion is the religion of the heart.

Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

#3. In Africa you have space ... there a profound sense of space here, space and sky

Thabo Mbeki

#4. When something looks enough like something else that people watching don't know what it is they're looking at.

Neil Gaiman

#5. I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.

Langston Hughes

#6. Talking to God, I felt, is always better than talking about God; those pious conversations - there's always a touch of self-approval about them. THERESE OF LISIEUX[1] I

Eugene H. Peterson

#7. Hey, tell me, when did this conversation go completely whoosh?

Justin Richards

#8. You cannot find what God has hidden;
you cannot hide what God has revealed.
The world deserves the light that's within you;
you deserve the light that you give to others.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. You ask yourself, 'What do you want your legacy to be?' I'm content at this point to say, 'Those who follow me.' Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I've got a pretty good group, so far.

Bill Parcells

#10. I'm a good person, but with many defects.

Enrique Iglesias

#11. They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is, that there's anyone left alive!

Lewis Carroll

#12. I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer ... It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time.

William Styron

#13. In the past stories have been what tethers us to the world and they've made us who we are.

Mat McNerney