"If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?"
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Every fiction has its base in fact."
Gayle Forman
"If being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like."
Zeno of Citium
"People don't have ideas, ideas have people."
Paul B. Rainey
"You probably drink too much. If you hand me that bottle, I'll reduce your temptations. --Augustus 'Gus' McCrae."
Larry McMurtry
"The archaeologists of the future will find themselves excavating heaps of our discarded junk, picking through mountains of DVDs and yoghurt pots and wondering: “who the fuck were these idiots?"
Chris Thomas
"For impact, tell your true story -challenges, victory, all. Build hope by helping others find themselves by your story."
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
"The best way to easily identify a counterfeit currency is to have a full exposure to the original currency. If you don't know your true vision, any satanic vision can cross your way and you might not know it."
Israelmore Ayivor
"Haven't we all, as time continues, found that we must be kind to ourselves and listen to our thoughts, because fewer and fewer of those remain who know what is most real to us?"
Lan Samantha Chang
"Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning."
Christine de Pizan
"Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law."
Cass Sunstein
"Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting."
Ptah-Hotep
"When you come to examine into the actuating motives for any line of human endeavor you will find that vanity figures about ninety per cent directly or indirectly, in the assay."
Samuel G. Blythe
"I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent."
Jim Butcher
"Keep in mind that in the whole long tradition of storytelling, from Greek myths through Shakespeare through King Arthur and Robin Hood, this whole notion that you can't tell stories about certain characters because someone else owns them is a very modern one - and to my mind, a very strange one."
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