Purporting Quotes

#1. Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood,

Harper Lee

#2. (Liberalism is like this: Purporting to offer a middle ground between radical individualism and collectivism, what it really gives us is a diabolical synthesis of the two, a bureaucratically managed libertinism.

Edward Feser

#3. It's truly hard to understand how liberal politicians, activists and journalists so consistently escape accountability for stoking the flames of racial disharmony while purporting to dampen them and for dividing our society along racial, gender, and economic lines while claiming to unite us.

David Limbaugh

#4. We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.

Bruce Jackson

#5. Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm. And there is no way that uncertainty can be compressed into determinate mathematical models.

Murray Rothbard

#6. Another assumption is labelled 'regression', and here the reader encounters strange diagrams purporting to represent the direction of psychical energy within the mind.

Sigmund Freud

#7. How she has held her shit together and clawed her way back to becoming a functioning human being again, I will never know. I couldn't have done it, but she did, and with the help of Cam, she's in a good place.

Lesley Jones

#8. When you're so undecided, it's better not to do anything, the right course of action is to take no action at all

Mary Kennedy

#9. I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

Phil Knight

#10. It's not about giving a fuck about everything your partner gives a fuck about; it's about giving a fuck about your partner regardless of the fucks he or she gives. That's unconditional love, baby.

Mark Manson

#11. I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

Victor Hugo

#12. If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

Wallace Stevens

#13. To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.

Anthony Edwards

#14. Azami thought it was a miracle she managed not to roll her eyes. She was Japanese, not Chinese.

Christine Feehan

#15. Right now, Prophet was all goddamned his, all here and present in the moment, and Tom planned to keep it that way. Quickly,

S.E. Jakes

#16. Serving the Lord is not always easy or popular. Folks may laugh at you on your job, mocking and making fun of your faith. But once you decide that there's no turning back, something in your heart rises up and says "no" to the devil and "yes" to the Lord.

T.D. Jakes

#17. When failure is not an option we can forget about learning, creativity, and innovation.

Brene Brown

#18. Seeing Josh is my homecoming. I didn't tell him I was coming back. He doesn't say anything when he sees me, and neither do I, because the fact that I'm here is an answer. We just look at each other and speak in the silence like we always have and no one interrupts the conversation.

Katja Millay

#19. For when I am powerless, it is then that I am strong..

Paul The Apostle

#20. Every professor secretly thinks that what the world needs is a good, solid lecture
from him, of course.

Gregory Benford