"I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust."

-- Abu Nuwas

#Giving Up Quotes #Free Spirit Quotes #Lust Quotes

“Things seem to be at a boiling point all the time. In fact, it has been that way my whole life. I find it interesting, and I like the fact that the emotions are in your face all the time. You always know where you stand. None of that "we don't have any racial problems here" attitude that you get, say, up north. All of this is rich fodder for a crime novelist.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.
“Zappos uses call center technology to track average call time per agent. But the goal isn't to reduce this average - it's more important that we make an emotional connection with the customer, rather than just quickly getting them off the phone.”
“We need to protect the same amount of cognitive liberty in an age where you can invade people's thoughts without physically intruding into their homes than you did at the time of the framing.”

Source : "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.
“I liked the koala, wallaby, and I chilled with a kangaroo a bit. There was a wombat that I quite enjoyed also”
“If I am cheated or betrayed, I will react.”
“In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more and nothing I have done that makes You love me less.”

Source : J. D. Greear (2011). “Gospel”, p.40, B&H Publishing Group
“This merely formal conceiving of the facts of one's own wretchedness is at the same time a departure from them--placing them in the object. It is not idle, therefore, to observe reflexively that in that very Thought, one has separated himself from them, and is no longer that which empirically he still sees himself to be.”

Source : William Ernest Hocking, Ph.D. (1912). “The Meaning of God in Human Experience”
“There are congregations on nearly every corner. I'm not sure we need more churches. What we need is a church. I say one church is better than fifty. I have tried to remove the plural form churches from my vocabulary, training myself to think of the church as Christ did, and as the early Christians did. The metaphors for her are always singular - a body, a bride. I heard one gospel preacher say it like this, as he really wound up and broke a sweat: "We've got to unite ourselves as one body. Because Jesus is coming back, and he's coming back for a bride not a harem.”

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