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The sin and guilt of the human race was imputed to the spotless lamb of God, Jesus Christ when He became the sin offering for the world. - John Paul Warren

Perhaps the one unanswerable question in life is why so many of us choose to live in a fantasy world of our own creation that offers us nothing but pain. - James Rozoff

He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate. Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent. - Alice Hoffman

Always run from a knife and rush a gun. - Jimmy Hoffa

Knock-offs may look good, but they never last as long as the real thing. - N.M. Silber

Henry James chews more than he bites off.

As my mother said, I never sprang out of bed with a glad shout! My voice needed oiling and then it took off.

I’ve been lucky enough to cross paths with these angels who seem to brush the dust off my wings so effortlessly. These wonderful people I don’t and will never know. I want to be one of them. I want to be many of them. Radiating, resonating, finding lost souls and then exhaling magic. - Hillary Wen

Unexamined thoughts, habits or action may offer some deceptive gain or pleasure but eventually it takes away something most valuable from our life ,which we have ever wished for. - Aditya Ajmera

He who lives by the sword, will eventually be wiped out by some bastard with a sawn off shotgun

All my life I had thought that if you worked hard you would be rewarded. If you worked your ass off, there would be some reward for you. But now I knew that the reward was just the chance to work your ass off. - Don J. Snyder

The only way we can touch the heart of men is to overlook an offense. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. - Benjamin Disraeli

The universe offers you three things that money cannot buy: joy, love, and life. - Matshona Dhliwayo

According to an original reading of the Constitution and Declaration, the intrusiveness that is an inevitable part of big government is an offense against its people. - A.E. Samaan

If you think that American Capitalism is the most dangerous Institution in the World, it just goes to show, that you haven't partied like there is no tomorrow with the fun loving posse of The Islamic Republic of Iran, North Korea, The Taliban, or ISIS. They all party off the hook! - James Hauenstein

All the luxuries you name I have, still the peace I do not get.One day, my friend called me off, and I get the world to which I belong. - Swati Tyagi

Never dance in a puddle when there's a hole in your shoe (it's always best to take your shoes off first). - John D. Rhodes

You're the right colour for the Angel of Death, Mister Cale. But a little short.' 'I could cut your head off and stand on it. Then I'd be taller. - Paul Hoffman

Your fear ain’t nothin but gum on the bottom of your shoe. The residue from some past experience is all it is. You can scrape the gum off or it can serve as a reminder of your testimony of survival. - Suzette Hinton

People like us are dead to society unless we’re pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them. - Donna Lynn Hope

The collaboration between secretaries of state, election officials and the voting system manufacturers on the matter of enforcing this black box proprietary code secrecy with election systems, is nothing less than the commoditization and monetization of American Democracy - James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to see the light. - Shannon L. Alder

Smile, my beloved, like the gold smiles from my father's coffers. - Kahlil Gibran

You may be smart, talented, and hardworking but if you do not know about an opportunity, you do not get that opportunity. At our offices, we are solving this problem for millions. - Sharad Vivek Sagar

America. Where property damage is a greater offense than genocide. - Darnell Lamont Walker

The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created - created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. - John Schaar

Do not take the advantage of all the little luxuries a house of a stranger may offer you. - Auliq Ice

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set. - Harriet Van Horne

Please lift your snowy skies off my soul -Your diamond dreams slice through my veins - Else Lasker-Schüler

Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds. - William Sloane Coffin Jr.

Revised regulations will never suppress federal workplace retaliation; nor will it cure the inaction of an EEOC official when justice demands fair, prompt and judicious decision-making. - Tanya Ward Jordan

Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. - Unknown

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. - Robert Frost

To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I can't save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that I've stumbled upon the very freedom I've longed for in the very place I'd least expected it. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope. - Thomas Merton

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. - David Broder

we deceive ourselves if we believe we can hold on to old models as "ideologies whimper off to a shallow grave in prolonged agony of people, institutions and cultures. - Said E. Dawlabani

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States. - H. L. Mencken

We are only constrained by the boundaries of our imagination - David Moffett

Love was never a mistake,even when it wasn't returned. - Alice Hoffman

Your smile is the light of your soul. Don’t ever turn it off. - Debasish Mridha

Life Isnt A Game,Its A War,Always Having To FightFor What We Believe In. - Official Barbie Michelle

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. - Sam Brown

Where there is hope there is life. - James Rozoff

Push off, and sitting well in order smite the sounding furrows - Ulysses Tennyson

The majority of the common people do not realize that calling 911 may result in a stressed out armed police officer that has a range of medical issues and is taking potent prescription drugs being sent to out to them. - Steven Magee

The eye is to light as the soul is to God. - Geoffrey Wood

Never believe a friend who offered you his friendship just because he was getting bored. - Amit Kalantri

Ich habe die Überzeugung gewonnen, dass Kinder das beste und klügste Publikum sind, das man sich als Geschichtenerzähler nur wünschen kann. Kinder sind strenge, unbestechliche Kritiker."[As quoted on .] Otfried Preußler - Preußler's official website

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well. - Mark Twain

It's early on a beautiful winter morning. The house is quiet. The sun is shining. I'm thankful. I'm happy. My cup runneth over. Now there's coffee everywhere. - Mindy Levy

Ghost towns filled with sad people who settled for what life offered them. The road unfurls before us. Everything is possible. I feel sick to my stomach. - Pete Wentz

Democracy is not something that you believe in, or something that you hang your hat on. It's something that you do, you participate. Without participation, democracy crumbles and fails. If you participate, you win, and the future is yours. - Abbie Hoffman

Use your intellect to guide you, and you will end up putting peopleoff. Rely on your emotions, and you will forever be pushed around.Force your will on others, and you will live in constant tension. Thereis no getting around it—people are hard to live with. - Natsume Soseki

In general, Americans would walk a mile uphill in the rain to avoid pain, unless the walk could be shorter and level and the day sunny, which they’d prefer. - Geoffrey Wood

Jesus does not demand of us higher standards, he offers us himself. Jesus does not require of us super-human ability or commitments. He gives us his ability and grace. - Ronnie McBrayer

With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook —that prissy little virtue, Temperance— for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly undefended. - Geoffrey Wood

Where faith costs nothing, faith loses respect, even to those who possess it. - Geoffrey Wood

What is the American fetish about highways?They want to get somewhere, LaBas offers.Because something is after them, Black Herman adds.But what is after them?They are after themselves. They call it destiny. Progress. - Ishmael Reed

You know it's time to do the laundry when you dry off with a sneaker, - Zach Galifianakis

Going through life regretting your past decisions is like being a repeat offender in jail. You never break free because you won't allow your mentality to move on".~The Roadblock is You - Demia Avery

When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing. - Christopher Bigsby

The app saved three minutes of my time. But in the process, it cut a neighborhood business out of the economic equation. And, in a way, I had cut off myself from the inconvenient, maddening, but all-too-necessary messiness of human interaction. - Nick Bilton

Being a spy was something like standing on the south shore fending off a hurricane with a $2 poncho and an umbrella. - Lynn Blackmar

My rage is derived from eyes so sharp they see through the idiocy being passed off as sophistication. Under the cloak of universal themes and terms such as freedom, change, and acceptance, madness ensues, being readily welcomed by those whose mind's eye questions nothing. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau

You must be Independent, Independent, Independent - don't talk so much but do more - go your own way and let your neighbour go his... Shake off all the props - the props tradition and authority give you - and go alone - crawl - stumble - stagger - but go alone. - Charles Rennie Mackintosh

He who dies with the most toys...dies a child. - James Rozoff

Would that the Roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head]. - Caligula (Gaius Caesar)

The era of biologically toxic wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation and harmonic electronic power generation from wind and solar systems with their adverse brain modifying effects that can bring on irritable and aggressive behaviors has made it a bad time to be a police officer. - Steven Magee

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself. - Mark Twain

One day you will wonder what was so important that you put off doing the most important things. 'Someday' can be a thief in the night. - Deborah Brown

We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. - Samuel Butler

Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return. - W. H. Auden

I thought of him as a beautiful deer in the forest that made this world a better place simply by existing; I didn't need it in my living room hanging off the wall. - Christine Duan (Kissing Is The Easy Part)

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever. - Tibor Kalman

I've received two key pieces of advice in regard to my books. The first is, "You should lay off the f-bombs." The other is, "You should add more f-bombs. - LiNCOLN PARK

It was stupid not to let MacArthur finish off those rice eaters. Push 'em back. - H.G. Bissinger

If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed. - David H. Hackworth

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone - Pablo Picasso

There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

I sat down on the sofa, surrounded by years of coffee rings and sandwich stains. If the police ever did a DNA test on this sofa, it would be ninety per cent disappointment. - Danny Wallace

Ah men,why do you want all this attention?I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutelynecessary. What do you have to offer meI can't find otherwiseexcept humiliation? Which I no longerneed. - Margaret Atwood

Geoffrey's own heart felt inconveniently large just then. - Thomas Hardy

Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive. - Eliza Cook

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.

I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model--because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else. - Britney Spears

Enmeshed in the details of life, a diary rarely talks about the important things. It turns out that most of life happens off-screen. - Laura Moncur

Coffee is to a Writer as Blood is to a Vampire! - Kade Cook

A truth told once is no match for a lie oft repeated. - James Rozoff

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket. - Karl Kraus

If people aren't going to talk about your product, then it's not good enough. - Jeffrey Kalmikoff

all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. - Dale Carnegie

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity - Eric Hoffer

What makes you think that Valentine's change of plans had anything to do with your brother?" "Because only Jace can piss someone off that much. - Cassandra Clare

I think Amy Winehouse's decision not to go to rehab was a bad one. In fact, I think it was the worst idea since Dodi Al Fayed said to Princess Diana, "Ooh, look! A tunnel! Whack that seat belt off and let's have a fuck. - Robert Clark

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling. - Dave Barry

Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's theperson who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does somethingabout it that makes a difference. - Nolan Bushnell

Seven Ages: first puking and mewlingThen very pissed-off with your schoolingThen fucks, and then fightsNext judging chaps' rightsThen sitting in slippers: then drooling. - Robert Conquest

If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you; and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds.

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday. - Russell Baker

I have nothing but a great head to offer.Is that enough? - Sola Kosoko

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. - Mark Twain

Sometimes saying goodbye to the ones you love can be the most appropriate thing to do in order to help them understand there are consequences for each and every choice we make. - Raphael Zernoff

Always maintain the attitude of a student. When a person thinks they have finished learning, that is when bitterness and disappointment can set in, as that person will wake up everyday wondering when someone is going to throw a parade in their honour for being so smart. - Nick Offerman

She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it. - Harper Lee

I hate often and easily. I hate, for example, people who sit with their legs splayed. People who claim to give 110 percent. People who call themselves "comfortable" when what they mean is decadently rich. You're so judgmental, my shrink tells me, and I cry all the way home, thinking of it. - Jenny Offill

I’m not sure if fate or destiny is real. But I can tell you that sometimes the very thing you’ve been hoping for will walk through the door, determined to fend you off. And still, somehow, you will find that you are enough. - Kiera Cass

Wiping the tears off another’s eyes is one of the sweetest and coolest gestures ever. It says, I am here if you need to talk or a shoulder to lean on. I may not understand your pains but I would do anything to keep the tears from falling. - Omoakhuana Anthonia

I'm rambling again. Wandering off the point. But this is the true story of my wasted life... - Mordecai Richler

People think of all kinds of things at three in the morning. We all do. That's why we each have to figure out our own way of fighting it off. - Haruki Murakami

Gratitude is a harbinger of healing, the first robin of spring. - Joyce Wycoff

He tells me to hold back the tears and winds me up like a toy, telling me that men don’t cry. He tells me no more because he’s gone and off with his own kids. I see him in the distance, proud and enlivened. He taught me how to cry and how to be strong at the same time. For others. - Joe Cao

The abundance Jesus offers is a spiritual abundance that transcends circumstances, like income, health, living conditions, and even death. The abundant life is eternal. - Charles R. Swindoll

The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much. - Don Roff

Behold, we know not anything;I can but trust that good shall fallAt last -- far off -- at last, to all,And every winter change to spring. - Alfred Tennyson

Don’t worry, I’m the business expert here, and when I make my first million, I’m going to sue those werewolves’ asses off, Priscilla said cheerfully. They’ll have no ass left. They’ll be ass-less. They’ll look ridiculous. - St. Clair, Georgette

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us. - Eric Hoffer

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it. - Anonymous

It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life. - John Holt

Give your mind permission to travel where the body cannot go and be open to all the wisdom that the universe has to offer. - Janet Autherine

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything. - George Gordon Byron

The romanticism of struggle is over. What remains are the utterly naked facts. The cult of personality and its collapse. Rethinking of everything. The masks are off (the mask of religion, the mask of heroism…). - Sonallah Ibrahim

The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office). - Faith Popcorn

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want? - Andy Zaltzman

Had I known that coffee could taste so good, I would have gotten drunk on it every day. - Rabih Alameddine

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer. - Peter Ustinov

Sometimes being an actor is like being some kind of detective where you're on the search for a secret that will unlock the character. - Philip Seymour Hoffman

The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity. - Françoise Mauriac

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience. - John Cage

Up here on the Ice each of us is singular, isolate, I as cut off from those like me, from my society, and its rules, as he from his. - Ursula K. Le Guin

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Look out how you use proud words.When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can’t hear you calling -Look out how you use proud words. - Carl Sandburg

life is like a tree, when you feeling down the leaves fall off. - Iyonna Williams

Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a handsome face on a story. Narratives become of suspicious merit in proportion as they lean to Newgate-like offenses, particularly of blood and wounds... - Leigh Hunt

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation. - Gordon B. Hinckley

a feminist is just someone who recognizes power structures that keep people from having the fullest life they can. - Lauren Groff

Life's lessons aren't always new. Often they're the same old worn-out truths offering us greater depths of wisdom and understanding. - Richelle E. Goodrich

The best thing that life can offer is happiness. The best way to find happiness is through unconditional love. - Debasish Mridha

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism. - George Lakoff

He got off on Lincoln and slavery and dared any man there to deny that Lincoln and the negro and Moses and the children of Israel were the same, and that the Red Sea was just the blood that had to be spilled in order that the black race might cross into the Promised Land. - William Faulkner

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle. - Hillary Rodham Clinton

Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do. - Keith Johnstone

Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured. - Sri Aurobindo

It seems The Adversary needs neither their guilt nor their request, but simply their return. In other words, since repentance is the process whereby guilt is turned into gratitude, He doesn’t mind if they skip a step and go directly to gratitude. - Geoffrey Wood

Forgiveness is the intentional act or process of pardoning or offering absolution unto another. - Asa Don Brown

Work a lifetime to pay off a house. you finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it. - Arthur Miller

I'm sorry if any of you are catholic. I'm not sorry if you're offended, I'm actually just sorry by the fact that you're catholic - Bill Hicks

Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone. - Carlos Castaneda

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul. - William Shakespeare

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. - Pat Conroy

Bring it up, make amends, forgive yourself. It sounds simple, but don’t think for a second that it is easy. Getting free from the tyranny of past mistakes can be hard work, but definitely worth the effort. And the payoff is health, wholeness and inner peace. In other words, you get your life back. - Steve Goodier

For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch. - Anton Chekhov

Who cares who's captain after the wings have fallen off.

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder. - William Shakespeare

The Office does not sanctify the holder of it. - Robert Heinlein

I like my women like I like my coffee. In a plastic cup. - Eddie Izzard

As any distance we take from things give us an outside perspective, so does taking a geographical distance—offering us a new vantage point over our lives. - lauren klarfeld

Every time I complete a major project I reward myself with two full days of just reading and coffee! I do justify that it is my work! - Delia J. Colvin

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. - Jules Renard

If there is a sacred moment in the ethical pursuit of game, it is the moment you release the arrow or touch off the fatal shot. - Jim Posewitz

Knowing that one thing you want is a great step. Sure, whether you prefer or not, you'll get offers, and many will seem that one thing you want. - Ufuoma Apoki

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax. - Eric Hoffer

I offer you what I have myPoverty - W.S. Merwin

We cannot be sure that we have something to live for unless we are ready to die for it. - Eric Hoffer

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out. - Arthur Koestler

To lead from the front you must get off your behind. - Orrin Woodward

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful. - Don Roff

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. - Nelson Mandela

The trick to taking the paper off the crayons...is to just do it. There is no trick. - Dan Bergstein

Torah is not merely a collection of prohibitions, rigid strictures and boring observances. Rather, it is a narrative of the blessings and promises of God initially offered to one person and family, but through which the whole world will ultimately be blessed. - Walter C. Kaiser Jr.

They did what soldiers always do. They improvised. - Geoffrey Norman

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. - Alvin Toffler

The wind has many lovers and I am one of them, I move freely in her armsI know no chains, nor bound to anyone’s truth, you can call me a harlot of the wind, I take no offense, because I know at the end of my days, my face will show that I have been kissed by the breath of GOD.~Micheline Jean louis - Micheline Jean Louis

Don't strive for perfection, just do your best. Everything in life is ever revolving to be perfect. - Ann Marie Frohoff

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. - W. H. Auden

Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit. - Don Roff

In fact, when I finally shuffle off this mortalcoil, you will have to pry a book out of my cold, dead hands. - Michael Cart

Here are young women with more opportunities, more liberties than almost any women in history and at that moment we tell them they’re short-changed silenced victims of a patriarchy? It’s defeatist and demoralising. - Christina Hoff Sommers

Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off. - Richard Schiff

For me, reading begins at home. - Soraya Diase Coffelt

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. - Abraham Lincoln

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

The nature of society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow-by the tilt of the social landscape. - Eric Hoffer

I think that modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love. - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

The relationship between a perfect cup of coffee and a writer is just like the couple who always standby and feel proud of being committed to each other. - Himmilicious

Some people say you pick up the Dirty Boogie where you left it off. Others say you pick it up where you would have been had you never gotten off it. - James Lee Burke

Niemand ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als jene, die fälschlicherweise glauben, frei zu sein. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Your faith in Homo technologicus -the Tinkering Man- has one fatal flaw. It offers you no escape clause. - David Brin

No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals. - Henry P. Fairchild

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face. - Eva Hoffman

It is a wonderful morning with the sun shining bright and flowers smiling. There is a sweet breeze kissing my face while a hot cup of coffee warms my heart and awakens my mind. The primordial songs of ocean waves are soothing my soul. I am not on earth; I am in heaven on earth. - Debasish Mridha

That thing ruined my favorite T-shirt," complains Mario."Whatever." It’s Marianne’s voice. "You were just looking for a reason to get your shirt off." I try to look around for her, but my neck refuses. - Bill Blais

If you live in the house of Satan he might come home! - Geoffrey Karl Green

Someone had given my daughter a doctor's kit. Carefully, she takes her own temperature, places the pressure cuff around her arm. Then she takes the cuff off and examines it. "Would you like to be a doctor when you grow up?" I ask her. She looks at me oddly. "I'm already a doctor," she says. - Jenny Offill

SCEPTER, n. A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents. - Ambrose Bierce

Age does not mean wisdom, Do not follow the old man off the cliff. - James Pedigo

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. - Eric Hoffer

I’m sorry, my lady, said Geric, rubbing his arm. But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose. - Shannon Hale

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world. - Eric Hoffer

We all ought to be like little children in the way we treat each other as human beings; quick to forgive, slow to offend, children are friends to each other irrespective of their gender, religion, and color. - Paul Bamikole

and the creation, in the world and above the world, that once was at variance with itself, is knit together in friendship: and we ... are made to join in the angels' song, offering the worship of their praise. - Gregory of Nyssa

Be careful who you allow into your bed, and more importantly your heart. - Ann Marie Frohoff

I have a strong theory that you can tell a lot about someone by their coffee order - Emmie Lee Dean

The purpose of reading is not to pass some final judgement on the text, but to engage with what it has to offer to me now. - Tim Parks

To make a choice not to sacrifice is to decide that I am better off allowing a life to perish than release the resources I possess that might allow it to thrive. And because of choices such as these, the life that I am really allowing to perish is mine. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy.

Wars bring the best out of men, it can b good for some, bad for others but it is the best that man can offer - Nauman Khan

The ship is always off course. Anybody who sails knows that. Sailing is being off course and correcting. That gives a sense of what life is about. - Michael Meade

if you can't take a nap, if you can't take a day off, heaven's going to drive you nuts. - Mark Driscoll

If we get a 3D printer at the office, the first thing I’m printing with it is a new 3D printer just for me! - The Covert Comic

You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. - Franz Kafka

Hello, IT... Have you tried turning it off and on again?... OK, well, the button on the side. Is it glowing?... Yeah, you need to turn it on.... Err, the button turns it on.... Yeah, you do know how a button works, don't you?... No, not on clothes... I'm sorry, are you from the past? - Graham Linehan

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing - Glenn Gould

He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully. - E.M. Forster

It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.

Stay away from needle drugs. Richard Nixon is the only dope worth shooting. - Abbie Hoffman

The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without. - Eric Hoffer

You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'emBut you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em - Eminem

Did you make a mistake today? Did you do or say something that you’re ashamed of? Congratulations. You are officially human. Love yourself, especially when you’re aching with shame or regret. Make your amends, learn the lesson, and love your wondrous human self. - Margaret Moss Painter

It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. - H. L. Mencken

What kind of people?"The dead kind. The still-walking-around kind. The reeking, stinking, rotting-from-the-inside-out kind. Toothy and grinning, nasty with the dark and the dust of abandoned strip mines. But none of that was the whole truth. They were more than that. - page 135 - Brenna Yovanoff

But let me offer a word of caution. If you choose to give from your heart, be careful. The most incredible feeling might just overwhelm you. And if you continue in this behavior, that feeling may become permanent. - Steve Goodier

The concept of dignity of labour took people off the street. - Sunday Adelaja

Life felt hideously empty. But she told herself that was only because women are educated to think that marriage will be a sudden panacea to all emptiness, and although she'd fought off such notions, she had no doubt been infected by them. - Marilyn French

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being. - C.G. Jung

I hope to offer the personal as a way to connect to the universal, not a claim for one universal experience of having breasts, but a universal hope for kindness—to each other and our selves and our bodies. - Ruth Daniell

Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you. - Shannon L. Alder

Frankly, Pedro Almodóvar's recent box office hit, Volver, is the first movie I've seen in which a young woman's retaliation against sexual violence doesn't ultimately boomerang around to destroy her - Sarah Stillman

I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than of my body. - Leo Tolstoy

Everything is true for the person who believes it to be true. - Raphael Zernoff

If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks. - Steve Pavlina

When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'. - Stefan Molyneux

Leaving what feels secure behind and following the beckoning of our hearts doesn't always end as we expect or hope. We may even fail. But here's the payoff: it can also be amazing and wonderful and immensely satisfying. - Steve Goodier

A fixation with connecting with 'friends' online comes with the risk of disconnection with friends waiting for you to be present in the offline world. - Craig Hodges

Prostitutes are paid for taking their clothes off. Celebrities are paid for putting others' clothes on. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The only people capable of handling success are those who have learned to handle failures w/o taking their eyes off the prize. - Orrin Woodward

Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes.Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You’re doing just fine. - Charlotte Eriksson

He marries best who puts it off until it is too late. - H. L. Mencken

We can allow ourselves to pass through the darkest valley without losing our light. One candle can lit millions of other candles, which are willing to receive the light. - Raphael Zernoff

PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside. There is progress. - Ambrose Bierce

We need more inclusion, partnerships over partisanships in politics to solve man-made problems to be better off and in order to change the world - George Stamatis

Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud. - Shannon L. Alder

Achilles too staggered a moment. He felt his soul change colour. Blood pooled at his feet, and though he continued to stand upright and triumphant in the sun, his spirit set off on its own downward path and approached the boarders of an unknown region. - David Malouf

But the culture-vultures and the intellectual snobs, and the self-appointed guardians of the Muses, often frighten off the average person from the free development of this appetite. - Sydney J. Harris

Turn off the computer. Often, an open computer screen distracts us from other activities. Our eye catches a glimpse of something and before you know it, we’re back at the desk and surfing away. - James Chartrand

I'd rather be rich and healthy than poor and sick. - kevin mcpherson eckhoff

Ronald Reagan and George Bush pushed through programs that raised taxes on the middle class. I think it's time to cut them. And in my administration I'll offer a middle-income tax cut that will cut rates on the middle class. - Bill Clinton

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. - Daniel J. Boorstin

The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.

I'm a cactus but I will only offer you flowers. - Huseyn Raza

New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information. - Sara Sheridan

Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom. - Nancy Farmer

Why is it a man can never seem to buckle down and train himself to indolence and stupidity when he can see what sanctuary they offer from toil and pain? - Alan LeMay

Love it when a compelling new character kicks open your mental door, tracks mud across your brain, and props their feet up on your cerebrum. - Don Roff

Better to get off the train at this station. Than to do it later, when it's too late. Remember Time doesn't wait! - Deyth Banger

...anyone looking at you would write you off as a brainless nincompoop with about as much intelligence as a dead rabbit. - P.G. Wodehouse

One cannot review a bad book without showing off. - W. H. Auden

The true skeptic will never believe you no matter how much proof you offer him. The true believer does not need it.

Dear Anarcho-Communist,If you and I ever find ourselves in a stateless society, have no fear. Just mention that you are a communist, and I promise I will never try to "oppress" and "exploit" you by offering to trade with you, or by offering to pay you to do work.Sincerely, - Larken Rose

Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story. - Don Roff

The whole idea of awakening is about regaining self-trust. Through self-trust we remember how to be our own best guides. - Raphael Zernoff

I have never been good at saying goodbyes to people. What else can they offer rather than a reciprocal desolation? - Aishah Madadiy

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. - Abbie Hoffman

Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbartThe human power is revealed by poetIl potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science is the process of obscuring the marvelous with explanations. - James Rozoff

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off. - Johnny Carson

I don't really like coffee, she said, but I don't really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either. - Brian Andreas

You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine. - Jason Mraz

The King of Glory does not reward His servants according to the dignity of their office, but according to the humility and love with which they have exercised it. - Francis de Sales

Wadsworth MoorWhere the millstone of skyGrinds light and shadow so purple-fineAnd has ground it so longGrinding the skin off the earthEarth bleeds her raw true darknessA land naked now as a woundThat the sun swabs and dabsWhere the miles of agony are numbnessAnd harebell and heather a euphoria - Ted Hughes

Talent is only cream in your coffee. There is no reason to rest on your talent. If you don't present it, then it gets nowhere. - Mies Van Der Rohe

Charles, mate, you fret too much. I'm a grown man, I am, and I can blood my handle.""Handle your blood?" Bones offered dryly.Ian grinned. "Exactly. - Jeaniene Frost

said "let's send that fuckin' Flowers up there. He hasn't done anything for us lately.""He's off today," somebody said.Davenport said, "So what? - John Sandford

I wanted to stand on the kind of holy ground that wasn't curated by church professionals, where a burning bush could blaze forth in defiance of safety regulations and outside of regular office hours. - Sara Miles

What an ambiance, and such a pity I'm alone: Candles giving off their glow, gusts of wind and the light tapping of rain on the windowpane - a massage for the mind. And a comforting one, too. - Donna Lynn Hope

We look for our perfect partners, and we wish we can be accepted the way we are. We seek unconditional love. It is all beautiful. While doing it we can always remember that we need to accept ourselves unconditionally, as much as we wish others to accept as with no conditions. - Raphael Zernoff

Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off.Note: Dawkins was quoting a former editor of New Scientist Magazine, who is as yet unidentified (possibly Jeremy Webb) - Richard Dawkins

Passion and frigidity are like milk and coffee. They can't be perfect without each other... - Amine The I

In order to fight off fear we must become it. When we become one with fear we become one with opposite of fear, peace. They are two halves to the same object. - Matthew Donnelly

I'd forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe. - Steven Moffat

Reading is one of the best ways to bond with your child. Bond this Christmas with It’s Not About You, Mr. Santa Claus - Soraya Diase Coffelt

Never in mankind’s history have we so fundamentally changed our means of existence with so little thought. - James Rozoff

I wear the universe backwards. I imagine putting stars in my coffee, and sugar in the sky. I imagine going fishing in clouds, and watching the sun hide behind lakes. I'm too busy dancing with my imagination to even tip toe with reality for a second. They say I'm going mad. They're right. - D. Antoinette Foy

The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more. - Susan Sontag

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford

Curiosity is the offspring of mystery. For without mystery there be no need for curiosity. Curiosity is the search for the things that can be, it is the inspiration of the true adventurer. - Paul Bamikole

May be the road you travel doesn’t give you the beautiful fate you have always dreamed off! Stop and change the road, no matter how difficult it may be! - Mehmet Murat ildan

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. - Warren Farrell

There is a mathematics to all his relationships, underlying each and every one. He wants it to all add up in his head and he wants to do the adding. And should someone step outside his ciphers, the circle his mind has drawn, his trust evaporates. - Geoffrey Wood

Don't settle. If you settle, you already know it's below your standards. You are entitled to the best this life has to offer. - Karen A. Baquiran

The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush. - William Ellery Channing

I can tell you that "Just cheer up" is almost universally looked at as the most unhelpful depression cure ever. It's pretty much the equivalent of telling someone who just had their legs amputated to "just walk it off. - Jenny Lawson

One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Soon enough the tears came but of course nobody came down to see if she was all right, it was just the slut in the kitchen who'd ruined their lives, getting drunk of neat gin and howling for her lost lunatic offer. - Patrick McGrath

A tip for increased sales or in situations of life or death: Try to always refer to the lady as Miss. or Ms. Using the term: Ma'am could piss her off. - Ginnetta Correli

I was a Muslim, but then I became enlightened and became a Christian. - Brock Hoffpauir

The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people. - Steve Jobs

When you realize that incompetent police officers are harassing you, you need to call 911 and demand that a police supervisor be immediately dispatched to the scene. In the mean time you need to be video recording everything, as police officers are known for their blatant lies and fabrications. - Steven Magee

If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody.Open your mind, get up off the couch, move. - Anthony Bourdain

Let go of everything that you hold onto, which does not serve you anymore. Be light, walk faster. - Raphael Zernoff

Neuroanatomy, political history, and introspection all offer evidence that human beings are quite capable of resisting the urge to surrender to every impulse of reptilian core of brain. - Carl Sagan

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist. - Isaac Asimov

Honesty is the great essential. It exalts the individual citizenship, and, without honesty, no man deserves the confidence of the people in private pursuit or in public office. - Warren G. Harding

CONSUL, n. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure and office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country. - Ambrose Bierce

When life throws shit at you, grow great, big, fuck off roses. - Heather Hill

I shouldn’t need to remind you that it was words that created the universe and The Word that now holds it together. While your man was simply reading one little book, something not unlike Genesis was stirring in his skull, and you didn’t think to stop it? - Geoffrey Wood

I was just an option.Blown easily to piecesand offered to the skyby the sweet laced painupon your lips. - Jessica Kristie

Just start off with the same goals in mind. If you have the same values, same goals then you'll be on track for the same future. - Angelina Jolie

Well, you’ve taken a weight off my mind.A mind, I should imagine, scarcely constructed to bear greatweights. - P.G. Wodehouse

Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the sweet reward is that as you make new friends and encourage others, the foolish will learn the error of their ways because you did at least show them your teeth. - Johnnie Dent Jr.

You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart. - Elizabeth Berg

Those who are coming from the gutters know that from time to time a piece of us will break off and float back to the floor from whence it came. Wealth can gray your eyes at the edges, money does not make you hover above human qualities, you are only a flawed being with much material gain. - Crystal Evans

Reading is a tool no one can take away. A million bad things may happen in life and it'll still be with you, like a flashlight that never needs a battary. Reading can offer a crack of light on the blackest of nights. - Blue Balliett

I put my hands behind my head and lay on my back, trying to hold on to the memories of my family. Their faces seemed to be far off somewhere in my mind, and to get to them I had to bring up painful memories. - Ishmael Beah

You never know when one seemingly unrelated event may become the catalyst that sets off a chain of synchronistic events. Though you may not know for sure when something important will happen, you can always be ready to take action. - Andrea Goeglein

As much as love is the source of power for those who are centred in their hearts, as much fear is the source of illusionary power for those who insist on being led by their heads alone. - Raphael Zernoff

Our faith institutions have the best product that God can offer; but we have the worst customer service imaginable. - Johnnie Dent Jr.

Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried. - Sam Harris

I am forever busy working, because I want to work until get a personal call from the bank. Telling me that they cant add more zeros in my account. The number is too long , that they have rounded it off, but still cant add more digits to it. - De philosopher DJ Kyos

Now they feel not only known and still loved, but also loved because they are known. - Geoffrey Wood

Technology offers great communication tools. Social media helps make connections. And, heart to heart conversations take place face to face and not over email, Whatsup, Facebook or Twitter. Don't be deceived. - Ana Ortega

With love, accept everything that life has to offer you. Life will be easy, kind, magnificent, and magical to you. - Debasish Mridha

Avoid living in new homes and working in new offices due to the high levels of chemical out-gassing that they exhibit during their first year. - Steven Magee

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself. - Kris Kristofferson

Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it. - Sai Baba

Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist. - Hiroko Sakai

The books we read in childhood don't exist anymore; they sailed off with the wind, leaving bare skeletons behind. Whoever still has in him the memory and marrow of childhood should rewrite these books as he experienced them. - Bruno Schulz

You are one and only creator of your reality. Even when you might think there is some external force out there creating it for you, it is just you. - Raphael Zernoff

Computers don't kill books; people do. - Douglas Rushkoff

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies. - Lauren Groff

For aeons past, there were many gods who descended to be humans, yet there were not many humans who ascended back to their divinity. - Raphael Zernoff

You have the ability to drive your brain and the capability to nab the steering wheel back any time you feel yourself veering off the road you intended to take. - Toni Sorenson

Playoffs?! Don't talk about playoffs! Are you kidding me? Playoffs?! I'm just hoping we can win a game, another game!

Life is an experiment, experiment by sending as many ideas in the universe and see which idea takes off and put your heart into that. - Matthew Donnelly

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents. - Marilyn Monroe

Early morning: set off at dawn. Travel round in front of the sun, steal a day's march on him. Keep it up for ever never grow a day older technically. - James Joyce

Living in a vacuum sucks. - Adrienne E. Gusoff

Make a list of goals for every year, tick them off & reward yourself when you achieve each one. Will give much discipline in your life. - Ziad K. Abdelnour

Paris has history, it has art, it has wonderful architecture, it has literature, but much more important than all these, it has freedom! If a city cannot offer freedom to its dwellers, all its other beauties will be meaningless! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The new mythology of love was that it bent to the fashion of the day, obligated to take the shape of doves, lilies, jewels. This is a lie. Love is sometimes as passionate as war. - Brenna Yovanoff

You should never turn down the offer of another man’s story,’ the fox persisted, moving off a little further into the trees ahead. ‘Stories are the only thing that separates us from the animals after all. - T.B. McKenzie

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old. - Jasper Johns

And I said, 'Do I have leprosy?' And they said, 'You are a dangerous element. - David E Hoffman

We judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions. We need to offer grace to all, because we all need a little grace. - Jayce O'Neal

I find that I keep offering God my service when what He wants is my fellowship - John Paul Warren

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay. - Eric Hoffer

With enough coffee anything is possible - Karen Salmansohn

No prince, no success filled her dreams: only time spread out before her to spend as she chose, a time of contemplation which offered her refuge. - Delphine de Vigan

One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better - Larry Niven

Why don't I just give you a pair of my panties to hang around your neck? Then whenever you feel jealous, you can wave them at whoever's pissing you off. - Jeaniene Frost

Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life.The Doctor: Believe me... It was an accident. - Steven Moffat

People are willing to help you succeed but many are probably not sure whether you might feel insulted or might see it as genuine help, that's why we should always seek out for help when we're stuck,so as to make people feel welcomed to offer ideas. - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

The plural of anecdote is not data. - Marc Bekoff

DON'T FOR GET WHERE YOU CAME FROM SO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR GOING. - Edward Loffredo

Whether the vessel is a legal document or a rap song, language is often chosen ot exclude. To use a scholarly phrase, "discourse communities" are often gated,so it's the good writer's job to offer readers a set of keys. - Roy Peter Clark

I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery, the offering, and the pride. - Muriel Rukeyser

Hero' is not an official status or designation, but if the world recognize you as a hero, it is the highest honor you will ever receive. - Amit Kalantri

A good book is enjoyable. A great book sets off a bomb inside of you. - Ned Hepburn

It is easier to fall off the ladder once you on top, the balance is being aware of your environment. - Unarine Ramaru

Today she’s walking down the driveway to get on the school bus. Tomorrow she’s going off to college. Don’t blink. - levi paul taylor

If we blind them to The Adversary —decrease their desire for The Desire— while at the same time encourage them to do anything else they desire with increasing freedom of choice, then eventually we snuff out desire while leaving demand in tact. - Geoffrey Wood

Lets make a change today while everybody takes a day off and waits to make a change tomorrow. - Auliq Ice

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size. - Eric Hoffer

Age doesn't count, but sense - Eli Coffie

Cosmopolitanism has offered me an ethical perspective and a conceptual framework with which to read the _signs of our times_ as a theologian and intellectual who has a public responsibility for constantly offering a way to engage in this rapidly changing public world. - Namsoon Kang

Every now and then I have to take a backward step in giving in. Not because of expecting something in return. But because I want to see how far God has changed me from what I used to be. I guess this is the only pain of humility! To offer your own heartbeat every single day! - Carvic Valdellon

When you feel that life has nothing to offer you, then offer your greatness for the humanity. - Debasish Mridha

Do not fear the fire within you, burning brighter than any star it attracts only those whose flame feeds off the very air that you breathe. Let passion be the inferno that engulfs your soul. - Virginia Alison

No one of real intelligence will accept anything just because some authority declares it be so. Don't accept the truth of anything you have not confirmed for yourself. - Paul Hoffmann

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy. - Richard Francis Burton

All leaders strive to turn their followers into children. - Eric Hoffer

Do you think people love having jobs, Sylvia asks Peter in because they offer a condoned but false responsibility that masks, for at least eight hours a day, true responsibility? - David Bajo

Three eggs two slices of toast a cup of coffee an episode of Mr. Ed. A Violin and a bowl of fruit what else does a man need? - Stanley Victor Paskavich

Maybe we feel empty because we spend so much of our own time watching other people live their lives, chase their dreams, express their love, and navigate their relationships. And when we turn off our TV or put down our phone... We've nourished nothing of our own. - Steve Maraboli

Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today. - Josh Billings

Let your work show off for you and not your ego. - Unarine Ramaru

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. - Eric Hoffer

Chant to him: An individual thinks for himself. Then roll that around in his head till it means: If I didn’t think of it, it has no bearing on my life. - Geoffrey Wood

One of the things I love about labeling myself as an author is that I can read books and call it "researching writing styles."-- - Mike Mankoff

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent. - William Shakespeare

The truth feels like it hurts, yet actually it builds. A lie feels like it builds, yet actually it hurts. - Moffat Machingura

In the middle of the mayhem, you came and sang a song of melancholy. You promised a wildfire, but instead choked the light that was struggling hard for survival. Eventually when all the light went off. You left, complaining about the darkness. - Akshay Vasu

Indeed, if their wristbands asked them the question: What-Would-Jesus-Buy—well now, that could very well revolutionize the Christian church in America. - Geoffrey Wood

I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. ― - Eudora Welty

O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax! - Anna Quindlen

I have often depended on the blindness of strangers. - Adrienne E. Gusoff

Each of us is a story, waiting for a devoted reader who will take us off the shelf and embrace all our plot twists. - John Mark Green

Creativity is the catalyst to the future. - Ann Marie Frohoff

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end. - Kris Kristofferson

The words ‘when I take you home’ echoed in the captain’s mind, caroming off that private place where all his suspicions and uncertainties slept. - Michelle Franklin

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. - Mark Twain

Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul. - Meg Rosoff

Life, liberty and the pursuit of gratitude, now that would’ve worked. They would have been readily led to contentment, which would’ve then better lead them on to happiness. - Geoffrey Wood

Gratitude, not guilt, as motivation is always His starting point, thus guilt as a motivation leads nowhere. - Geoffrey Wood

REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian. - Ambrose Bierce

I won't be sad too often,If they bury me in the libraryWith bookworms in my coffin. - J. Patrick Lewis

Anybody who listens to their intuition risk at times making other people disappointed or even pissed off because you're not tending to what they want from you but instead to what feels right for you. - Maria Erving

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction. - Don Roff

On Collateral Damage: "Every limb lost, every hovel burned, every wife left husbandless, and every child orphaned created ripples of anger and resentment. Create enough of them, and we'll one day wind up with a wave that will wash us off the map. - Chris Holm

Many people support, online or offline, a person not out of respect but because of the fact that if s/he does not remain in that high position, then they will also lose their chance of making livelihood. - Anuj Somany

Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious.If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. - James Williams

I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things. - Ernest Hemingway

Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source. - Ron Nesen

Life is full of hurts, and it always will be. As long as you live, people are going to offend you, hurt you, and disappoint you.But you needn't let their actions control your response and out-look on life. You can learn to rise above life's disappointments. - Prince Akwarandu

It was cold, dark & lonely in the great cathedral-like chambers, with only coffins and corpses for company. - Billie-Jo Williams

Wichtor’s been cranky ever since a fat vulture roosted on his granite Cârnat, uh, schmekel in 1864 and broke it off." — Bats 2015 - Fred Barnett

The stories of past courage can define that ingredient-they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul. - John F. Kennedy

It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living. - Eric Hoffer

To increase the value of your day, add some love and gratitude to your coffee and some kindness to your dinner. - Debasish Mridha

Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To think about it is, to some degree, to stop the pleasure, to stop the experience, to step outside it. - Geoffrey Wood

Turns out the problem is the picture. The problem isn't the 16,000 murders each year [...]. That's not the problem. The photo is the thing. - Teodoro Petkoff

When we are able to offer to the other something of ourselves that can engage, nourish or sustain spirit then we most fully speak. Likewise, the forest is a bit more beautiful. The light finds its way in; reaching out to the ground guiding us to a heavenly place. - Ishan Khatri

It is my assessment that most police officers who spend their days driving around USA cities will have some levelof radiation sickness and this is concerning! - Steven Magee

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. - Robert Frost

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. - Charles Lamb

One is far better off feeling than one is thinking. - A.D. Posey

Fairytales are healthy for the children. As they grow up, the magical thinking wears off, but the fairytale-induced creative brain circuits stay forever. - Abhijit Naskar

Stories of Fantasy are nothing more than the retelling of our own triumphs and sad, sad tragedies ... I have that painted on my office wall and love to stare at it. - Tod Langley

He was as fresh as is the month of May. - Geoffrey Chaucer

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return. - Salman Rushdie

Doesn't it seem more reasonable to take action to heal the social pathology that generates crime than to use gun control to blow another political toe off American liberalism during each election cycle? - Joe Bageant

There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face. - Karen Joy Fowler

Fee-fi-fo-fum, you better run and hideI smell the blood of a petty little coward - Set it off

If equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him. Though an obstinate fight may be made by a small force, in the end it must be captured by the larger force. - Sun Tzu 孙子

GOD Forgave you and GOD forgave me so you and I need to always forgive those who offend us and curse us and speak and write lies about us. - Errol Anthony Smythe.

Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise - Debra Anastasia

She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs. - Graham Greene

Until the police internal affairs system starts prosecuting and firing a substantial number of corrupt and incompetent police officers, I will not be lighting it up blue! - Steven Magee

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer? - Roman Payne

But there was in the air that kind of distortion that bent you a little; it caused your usual self to grow slippery, to wander off and shop, to get blurry, bleed, bevel with possibility. - Lorrie Moore

Our failures make us who we are; they build our character, we are defined by what we do with them, and how we respond to adversity. Without failure there is no growth, no striving for better, no adjusting, or dusting yourself off to try again. - J.W. Lord

With addiction, a client’s fears can be ripened into some very pleasing fruit: Irritability, suspiciousness, isolation, paranoia, and finally on to that grand banana —the fear of Fear itself. - Geoffrey Wood

Il ne peut y avoir une civilisation mondiale puisque la civilisation implique la coexistence de cultures offrant entre elles le maximum de diversité. - Claude Lévi-Strauss

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off. - Agatha Christie

It used to be that a novel would put you among people, tell you a story or stories, give you some sense of what it might be like to see a different cut-out and perspective of the world: as a schoolteacher, an adulteress, the wife of a member of Parliament, an officer, a cockroach. - Michael Hofmann

We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the crimes of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value. - David Sarnoff

Forgiveness offered -especially when so undeserved - cuts chains off the human heart that no other power in any universe anywhere can rattle much less break....love did what hatred can not and never will. - Charles Martin

You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades. - Annie Dillard

Reprimand not a child immediately on the offence. Wait till the irritation has been replaced by serenity. - Moses Hasid

Every man should care (be concerned) about these three things: Which station have I come from? Which station did I get off? Which station am I going to? - Dada Bhagwan

In the consciousness that another mind reflects your thought, you find the keenest satisfaction. Here is the high office of a friend, and in these high experiences is the point of attachment.-- - Samuel McChord Crothers

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart. - Shannon L. Alder

I have been thinking about what might happen if they installed clappers to turn on and off the lights in a concert hall. Maybe they could spare the cost of hiring some people for the next rock concert. - Linnea Gelland

Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin. - David Letterman

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off - Archibald MacLeish

No, I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb, and I also know I'm not blonde.

Describing my sexual history and scope of experience; am surrendering; in conclusion an epic failure'I'm a master at setting people off...of this it may continue... - Robert Wesley Miller

Embrace your imperfections.Fancy your flaws.Flaunt your blemishes.Adore your birthmarks.Laugh off glitches.Discuss your setbacks.Don’t call your mistakes ‘Regrets’Call them ‘Lessons - Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Da sind wir, neue Insekten im verwaisten Ameisenhaufen, mit unseren Taschen voller Pläne und unseren Hoffnungen darauf zu wimmeln. - Mariette navarro

Listen to your heart in silence and peace, as through fear you only channel fear. - Raphael Zernoff

A lot of the things we've done have been common sense. You do what makes sense to you and make moves that you are comfortable making. Everything is having fun in mind. - Jeffrey Kalmikoff

For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance authorities with restraint, I believe it is more likely that I will achieve my life-long dream of playing in the NBA. - Ron Wyden

Sometimes you just have to turn off the lights, sit in the dark, and see what happens inside of you. - Adam Oakley

One would think after all the disappointment life offers us unfortunate few we would give up the trifles connected with hope, feeling, belief and optimism in our fellow souls. - Daleen Van Tonder

Is there any forgiveness? If somebody does something wrong, we now have copped this "off with the head" attitude, which, I confess, feels great sometimes, but come on. Why do we paint everyone with the same brush? Why does it seem more & more we want people ruined rather than rehabilitated? - Whoopi Goldberg

Most people who spend their lives are dreaming of having a summer house somewhere in the suburb of their city where they could lie in the hot sun all day long, drinking coffee and juice. They think they are enjoying life, but really they are spending life. - Sunday Adelaja

There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.

Sit down, have a nice cup of coffee read a book in another language - the fountain of youth! - Stephen D. Krashen

When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they’re standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures. - Meg Rosoff

A tree does not stop growing because the wind blew off a few of its leaves. - Matshona Dhliwayo

No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.

The festive season isn’t just a time to teach children about Jesus and giving, it’s also a time to teach your children about those less fortunate. This year, encourage your children to pick a present and give it to a child who has none, or take them to a charity drive. - Soraya Diase Coffelt

Whether your pleasing or pissing everybody off, your doing something wrong. - David Cook

BEARD, n. The hair that is commonly cut off by those who justly execrate the absurd Chinese custom of shaving the head. - Ambrose Bierce

But no one can rid himself of the preaching clergyman. He is the bore of the age, the old man whom we Sinbads cannot shake off, the nightmare that disturbs our Sunday's rest, the incubus that overloads our religion and makes God's service distasteful. - Trollope Anthony 1815-1882

How you ever gonna reach the starsIf you never get off the ground? - Big Time Rush

There is no such thing as a normal family so don't trip off it, just deal with it. - Ice-T

The five senses offer us five different ways of shutting out reality. What is intuition and what does it perceive? - Nanamoli Thera

i have only one way to blow the steam off, i make money, you spend money thats funny,now i'm smilling like thats honey:) - Mohlalefi j motsima

Religiosity developed because successful religions made groups more efficient at turning resources into offspring." (including art, cathedrals, cities, earthworks, etc?) - Jonathan Haidt

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others. - Eric Hoffer

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off? - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house. - Jeff Foxworthy

Full spectrum lights should be used in all daytime offices for good health. - Steven Magee

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Never put off writing until you are better at it. - Gary Henderson

This hath not offended the king. - Sir Thomas More

The world is focused on success, which is defined as riches and fame. Define your success as a person of values. Make love, compassion, and kindness your only success and everything else will be available to you. - Raphael Zernoff

I've come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it's inevitable. Fight for it. - Ann Marie Frohoff

Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life. To be great at all one must be great here, now, in Philadelphia. - Russell H. Conwell

People seek light in the external darkness Not knowing that the Light is within.Close your physical eyes and see with your inner vision.Open your eyes and see what before was invisible to you. - Raphael Zernoff

If you keep chasing shooting stars, you'll never feel the warmth of the sun. - Ann Marie Frohoff

I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations. - Joss Whedon

When our internal reference point is the ego or self-image, we feel cut off from our source, and the uncertainty of events creates fear and doubt. - Deepak Chopra

Being a novelist is not the sort of thing we can shut off. It infests every bit of us until we lose the boundary between Person and Writer, like one of those color charts where it is impossible to say where the blue stops and the red begins. - Thomm Quackenbush

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks. How nonphysicists would scoff if they were able to follow the odd course of developments! - Albert Einstein

Time is the most valuable commodity we have to offer the world. Don't be afraid to share. - Mark W. Boyer

Get off of my shoulders. The foundation has been laid, now its time for you to build on it and get to work. - Amelia Boynton Robinson

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen

Never ask an elf for help; they might decide your better off dead, eh?" (Orik) (Eldest) (Page 207) - Christopher Paolini

In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off of things as they really are. - Colin E. Gunton

Some girls say that they are by themselves because men today don’t have anything to offer. - Auliq Ice

Our great weariness comes from work not done. - Eric Hoffer

Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art. - Neil Gaiman

Work diligently. Work hard. Focus. Perform as if you are at the Olympics. One day, unexpectedly, it will start paying off. - Joan F. Marques

Entrepreneurs persevere until it pays off. One good day can make up for an entire month, and one good month can make up for an entire year. Don't give up. The isn't over 'till it's over! - Farshad Asl

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee. - Scott Westerfeld

My sexuality hasn't offended you. Me being me without your permission did. - T.Taylor

Finally, slowly, drippingly, degrade the term Choice down to its most meager means: The red car not the black one. The 9:25 showing, not the 7:15. Ritz not Wheat Thins. - Geoffrey Wood

Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. - Carl Sandburg

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. - Thomas Mann

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent. - William Shakespeare

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. - Lord Acton

Ayurveda teaches us to love "as is" - not as we think people "should be. - Lissa Coffey

Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind. - Don Roff

When you're passionate about something, you don't need coffee or an energy drink to get you moving. - Rob Liano

Great imaginations are the breeding ground for great accomplishments!Great imaginations are like horses, they need guidance and proper nurturing, only then do they offer the world of adventure they promise. - Marilynn Dawson

When two dogs fight for a bone, and the third runs off with it, there's a lawyer among the dogs.

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off. - Stephen King

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission. - Robert Burns

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self. - Eric Hoffer

Be present and aware of the privilege of living. - Ann Marie Frohoff

Idols must never be touched: the gilt will come off on our hands. - Gustave Flaubert

The sky is but a looking glass into a pool of airless oceans, cast off into a dance of light and energy, leaving only a facet of guidance to navigate. Such an existence lays but within the mind man. - Indiana Lang

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views. - William F. Buckley Jr.

There is no pleasure that I haven't made myself sick on. - Philip Seymour Hoffman

When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime. - Don Roff

There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first error is never to begin; the second is never to finish. - Don Roff

They think that if they were allowed to do anything they desired, they would be satisfied and the more desires the better. But all desires divorced from The Desire eventually collapse in on themselves. - Geoffrey Wood

We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.

I believe if I Piss God off one more time. I'll be eligible to win a free Bible - Stanley Victor Paskavich

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me. - Clare Booth Luce

If the clients can be shown the saving in money on the purchase of a product, they themselves give often multiple reasons to the seller as why his goods or services offer a value for money. - Anuj Somany

Always work with/surround yourself with people who help make you a better version of you. Kindly avoid those who don't. - Don Roff

Life is like Mother Nature - unpredictable. Friends /relatives who promise to help, will avoid you when you need them. Then, you struggle to get through and suddenly, some stranger walks in offering you the help you needed. The hope, the betrayal and the miracle...all are just part of our life... - Sandhya Jane

We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to smoke divine and wine. If breath of sun does belch its heat, we boil coffee and prepare to eat. - Roman Payne

The best way to die is when your living - Alice Hoffman

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. - Eric Hoffer

Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage. - Tim Fargo

Date a girl who travels they said, but please, know that you will never tame her nor keep her. Because she’ll never sign her letters off with a your truly - but always with a see you when I see you - lauren klarfeld

Albeit i may die sleep not in the coffen of gold and even beer no fruit; but my impact after depart is my particular to paradise. - oladosu feyikogbon

In the modern world, if you want to travel off the beaten path, stay off the beaten media path. - Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off! - Sarah Ferguson

ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble. - Ambrose Bierce

Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff. - Elvis Costello

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. - Robertson Davies

The media is socially liberal, economically conservative, and always pro-war. - James Rozoff

When words leave off, music begins. - Heinrich Heine

Some people, when they lose it, they scream, they fight. I hope that would be me - Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it. - Don Roff

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals. - Agnes Repplier

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. - Eric Hoffer

It is okay to date and experience all the excitement, thrills, and passion that romance offers, but let the love of your life be yourself. - Jenna Alatari

I never reach those far-off places. New trails tempt me at every turn. - Marty Rubin

Pick a sunset, and we'll ride off into it together. - T. M. Brenner

Do not limit your Sacred Space to the literal, such as a small room or office. Allow this energy to flow from deep within, so that every where you go, no matter what the circumstance, you will always be immersed in the divine - Gary Hopkins

She leaned forward and kissed me on the lips. He mouth was cold, her lips rough from the winter wind, and if the mystics are right and we are doomed to repeat our squalid lives ad infinitum, at least I will always return to that kiss - David Benioff

So many of us have believed that we need to labor and perform for God so that we can gain an identity, so that we might be accepted. But in the Kingdom, we start off accepted. - Beni Johnson

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

Grace runs downhill and now all his time is being redeemed. - Geoffrey Wood

Find your freedom through questioning everything you hear and see. Be free to choose, from all possible perspectives and opinions, what builds love and harmony. - Raphael Zernoff

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Friend, be not afraid of thy office, thou sendest me to God.

This is not suitable for me- to say this is indeed madness, it is nothing but egoism. To say ‘will not suit’ is an offense. - Dada Bhagwan

I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me. - Lady Gaga

Maybe I'm in Hell. That's okay, I'm not scared of Hell - it's just Heaven for bad people. - Steven Moffat

Once it gets off the ground into space, all science fiction is fantasy. - J.G. Ballard

Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories. - Don Roff

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense. - E. W. Dijkstra