Startled Cries Quotes

#1. If everything I perceive is based on what I already know, how will I ever perceive anything new? If I never perceive anything new, how will I change? How will I grow?

William Arntz

#2. I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Margaret Atwood

#3. God doesn't work through us because we're flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#4. Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

John Mason Brown

#5. Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help ...

Walter Benjamin

#6. It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by doing the stuff that he believed in.

Joe Rogan

#7. The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.

Thomas C. Oden

#8. For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know.

Kate Seredy

#9. I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.

Nadia Comaneci

#10. We don't need you as an ally. We're Dauntless.
-Tori

Veronica Roth

#11. Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things, too.

Richard Dawkins