Proselytizing Examples Quotes

#1. Our stomachs live in towns, said Mma Potokwani, patting the front of her dress. 'That is where the work is. Our stomachs know that. But our hearts are usually somewhere else.

Alexander McCall Smith

#2. What am I in the eyes of most people? A good-for-nothing, an eccentric and disagreeable man, somebody who has no position in society and never will have. Very well, even if that were true, I should want to show by my work what there is in the heart of such an eccentric man, of such a nobody.

Vincent Van Gogh

#3. They are denied access to the more advanced techniques of releasing the kundalini energy, which bring about quantum leaps in self-awareness.

Frederick Lenz

#4. In the past, America had slaves. Now it has the work ethic.

Marty Rubin

#5. Our history is a material history, not just a succession of thoughts or speech acts.

Andrew Shryock

#6. When you pray with this pipe, you pray for and with everything.

Black Elk

#7. Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and which people would be needed in a drastically reduced population - weighing the value of scientists and musicians against that of politicians, for example.

Susan Blackmore

#8. I want to resume the life of a shy person.

Garrison Keillor

#9. Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in '99, to assign responsibility, and to look at the institutional failings.

Jose Ramos-Horta

#10. It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.

George Pope Morris

#11. The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.

Tess Gerritsen

#12. The wonderful thing about a yearbook photo is that everyone shares the moment with you . . . forever.

Jay Asher

#13. You know how you feel when you get full? Well, I don't get full. I can eat a lot. Mike and I were in Italy for 10 days, and I put on 8 pounds. So in real life, I have to make sure I'm not eating just to eat.

Carrie Underwood

#14. O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move
The bloom of young Desire and purple light of love.

Thomas Gray

#15. How can you enjoy ice cream if you never eat broccoli?

James Dashner