quotes about Bravado

“Martial arts has just made me a better person. It's a way of life.”

“Believers obey Christ as the one whom our obedience is accepted by God. Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect, and unable to abide in God's presence. Therefore they look to Christ as the one who bears the iniquity of their holy things, who adds incense to their prayers, gathers out all the weeds from their duties and makes them acceptable to God.”

“Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.”

“You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.”

“Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.”

“I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.”

“Pain is like a new room in your house that you never knew you had. If you had known, you would have bolted and locked the room past any entering. But truly, it is a room like any other, four glaring white walls and a dark hard floor, and if you don't try to get out, it is possible to remain in it. Once you tried to get out, you ... couldn't ... stand ... it. Don't think of getting out.”

Source : Willa Gibbs (1953). “Seed of Mischief”

“Truthfully I don't remember much about anything after the Olympics 'cause I, I lost everything.”

“Marriage - as well as erotic friendships and sexual liaisons -between members of contrasting races and religions will take place with greater frequency, and will be more accepted than it is today.”

“The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The person who uncritically embraces any party line is guilty of an idolatrous surrender of her core identity as Abba's Child. Neither liberal fairy dust nor conservative hardball addresses our ragged human dignity.”