"Bonhoeffer knew that twisting the Truth to sell it more effectively was inexcusable. For Bonhoeffer the challenge was to present the Truth as purely as possible without attempting to help it along or dress it up."

-- Eric Metaxas

#Challenges Quotes #Dresses Quotes #Helping Quotes

“Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message.”
“I have a daughter and I have granddaughters and I will never vote to let a group of backward-looking ideologues cut women's access to birth control. We have lived in that world, and we are not going back, not ever”

Source : "During Government Shutdown, Nonprofits Amplify Message About Women’s Reproductive Rights", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.
“But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home.”
“For me black is not dark, it's poetic. I don't think of gothic I think of classic - it's a big difference.”
“Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.”
“To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It's - I think they might use too much oil in their hummus - but it's the wrong question.”
“I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so.”
“I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.”

Source : Orel Hershiser (1990). “Out of the Blue”, Jove Books

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