"Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty."

-- Djuna Barnes

#Bad Day Quotes #Nasty Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.”
“The main drawback, of course, was cost. Participating effectively in World Summit on the Information Society was very expensive for both developing countries and (especially) civil society.”
“Once he became president, George [H.] Bush revealed a vein of Styrofoam and no matter how deep he tried to go, he always ended up bobbing on the surface. His inaugural speech was like being present at the death of language ...”
“Give others their dignity by opening and softening in your heart to them.”
“Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image unconsciously develops, a certain kind of experience is usually necessary in order to perceive it.”
“Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects the way you live your life, whether or not you directly experience those effects. You want to be the kind of person who has the larger view, who takes other people's interests into account, who's dedicated to the principles that you can justify, like justice, knowledge, truth, beauty and morality.”
“With so many contradictory renditions of the biblical text, the public has lost confidence that we can actually know what the Bible says. It is an easy step from this skepticism to an indifference about what the Bible says.”

Source : "Leland Ryken Interview: Differences in Bible Translations". Christian Publishing House Interview, christianpublishinghouse.co.
“But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.”

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