Swaies Quotes

#1. The perswasion of the fortunate swaies the doubtfull.

George Herbert

#2. There are those who insist that it is a very bad thing to question God. To them, "why?" is a rude question. That depends, I believe, on whether it is an honest search, in faith, for His meaning, or whether it is the challenge of unbelief and rebellion.

Elisabeth Elliot

#3. Did he teach you how to bore you opponents to sleep? Because I think I missed that lesson - Allie

Julie Kagawa

#4. To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.

Richard Rorty

#5. For me, one of the most interesting columns to write was about Dick Cheney when he represented the U.S. at a commemorative ceremony at Auschwitz.

Robin Givhan

#6. My dance shoes. I reached the water's edge and I felt the terrible despair of someone who is used to running because that is what she had always done, and now she faces a brick wall

Rachel Joyce

#7. I get to be the mayor of the capital city of the most polluting state of the most polluting country on the planet ... I see truly a non-carbon economy. It's cleaner. It's healthier. We're about out of alternatives, so it's going to be easier and more cost effective to start to do the right thing.

Will Wynn

#8. Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.

Katherine Heigl

#9. The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.

Felix Mendelssohn

#10. Why does nobody understand that these are tears without a beginning or an end? I thought sadness had a beginning and an end. And a middle. A story, if you like. I was wrong.

Sally Brampton

#11. I hate it when, after I let a white person know they've said something racist, I end up having to listen for hours to their life.

Toi Derricotte

#12. If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far.

Haruki Murakami

#13. Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

John Steinbeck

#14. We constantly fight an unseen enemy. God has assured us the victory, but He has told us to take an aggressive stand against the evil one, covering ourselves in His armor. We're going to win, but victory is going to take blood, sweat, and tears - His blood, our sweat, and tears from us both.

Beth Moore

#15. And indeed, here I am posing an idle question of my own now: which is better - cheap happiness or sublime suffering?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky