"In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are."

-- E. Stanley Jones

#Church Quotes #Desire Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.”

Source : "Nauka pobezhdat" by Alexander Suvorov, 1806.
“I was never trying to be funny. Being funny feels to me like an alternate form of confessionality - that is, a way of dismantling the distance between writer and reader, a way of saying, "come in a little closer."”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“When I first saw Destiny's Child, I was in the fifth grade, and it made me want to sing and make music and there would be these freestyles on the radio for what seemed like hours, it was just so cool to me. So all of these influences and these styles started to blend together. Eventually, that evolved into me finding the indie scene in Houston. When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, "Okay, this is something that I could take seriously."”
“There are real radical Muslim groups out there that really are pretty villainous. You don't have to make them up.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Houses don't retrofit themselves and put in their own new boilers and furnaces and better-fitting windows and doors. Advanced biofuel crops don't plant themselves. Community gardens don't tend themselves. Farmers' markets don't run themselves. Every single thing that is good for the environment is actually a job, a contract, or an entrepreneurial opportunity.”

Source : Van Jones (2013). “Rebuild the Dream”, p.187, Nation Books
“With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that I responded to it and I liked whatever it was offering me.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I've got news for you... both those idiots [Al Snow and the Rock] aren't your friends! They hate you! Everybody hates you! All the people at home, all these people in the arena hate you, and most importantly, Y2J hates you!”
“Only the insane take themselves seriously.”

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