"Since the truth may not be what we would prefer. It is revealing that so many people today express approval by saying, "I'm comfortable with that," and disapproval by saying, "I'm not comfortable with that." Comfort is important when it comes to furniture and headphones, but it is irrelevant when it comes to truth."

-- Douglas Groothuis

#People Quotes #Important Quotes #Furniture Quotes

“Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that captures the insight in a kind of wash. The intuition may be real and ripe, fresh with possibilities, but the folk saying is guaranteed to be a cliche, stale and self-contained.”
“If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.”
“Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.”

Source : Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.378, Pan Macmillan
“But our highest objective should be that our children would repent from their sins, put their trust in Jesus Christ, and reflect the gospel to the world around them.”
“What I want out of my career is just to work.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.”
“I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: Malcolm McLaren, musician". Interview with Amy Fleming, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2009.
“Going nowhere isnâ€™t about turning your back on the world; itâ€™s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.”

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