"You're English," he said. "And I will therefore make certain allowances for you. I realize you don't understand you shouldn't argue with me, and so I'll explain it to you. Don't argue with me." Incredulous, she said, "That's it? 'Don't argue with me' is your explanation as to why I shouldn't argue with you?"

-- Julie Garwood

#Arguing Quotes #Realizing Quotes #Allowance Quotes

“Getting arrested is fun.”
“I don't know what I'd do if I was making a romantic comedy; I wouldn't feel like I was earning my $100 a day.”
“An actor can do a play on Broadway for three years. Every night he's expressing the same emotion in exactly the same way. He has developed a technique to convey those feelings so that he can get the ideas across. Or a musician may not want to play that damn music at all, but he has a booking and has to do it.”
“Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its own variations, that is, before the origination of specifically genetic material or gene-material.”
“But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from May 18, 2015
“Our dad played us a lot of old country songs by The Carter Family and he would sing along to it. I loved listening to him sing.”
“Our biggest problem is that we have an entire culture shaped by a misunderstanding of the gospel. That so-called gospel is deconstructing the church”

Source : Scot McKnight (2016). “The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited”, p.16, Zondervan
“Far from rejecting such a good man as you, He never even abandons a wicked man who hopes for His mercy.”

You may also like: