H. T. Leslie Quotes

surrenderin is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival!

The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.

It's all right to be disillusioned, but you can't be disillusioning.

I reserve my right to be complex.

When Christ becomes our focal point, we become everything we are meant to be-a servant to the glory of the King of all kings.

There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking.

One thing a person won't do when he's laughing is try to beat you up.

I really have to keep an eye on myself, because sometimes I think I might say something important.

Ultimately journalism has changed... partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.

It’s a beauty one isn’t born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.

No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.

I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.

Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.

When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts.

What is it about us human beings that we can’t let go of lost things?

Formatting is no substitute for writing.

Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

I think girls and boys should be able to be any way they want to be without getting picked on.

God's sacred intent for you and for me is nothing short of absolute abandonment to Jesus, entire separation from the pollution of the world, and ardent worship of our King with every breath we take.

Christianity has confused catching mice with the real work of the Kingdom, which is more like hunting lions.

The spectacular sparkle of set-apart femininity is found through absolute abandonment to the Author of all true beauty.

You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.

He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.

It doesn't really matter where I go (Heaven or Hell). I'll have plenty of friends in both places.

Are you having problems hearing? If so, those around you already know it. Hearing loss is no laughing matter, so don't be a punchline.

More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?

Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with the seat missing, but it hurts.

I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.

O God, take all our sorrows and use them to show us the nature of our joy.

For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.

You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm meeting someone who I greatly admire, I still have this horrible tendency to go bright red.

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.

It's never fun to be scared [about stage fright] but I think that it is important and it's healthy to always push yourself.

The Indian wars have never ended in the Americas.

Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through.

Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

There is no safer place for your hopes and dreams than in the loving hands of your faithful Father.

Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do.

I have 'the first' attached to my name in a whole lot of different aspects when it comes to the sport of basketball.

The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change, so do the former.

The most important thing is to remain active and to love what you are doing.

The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: keep bleeding, but find some love in the blood.

I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex

We have somehow deluded ourselves into thinking that wealth is wisdom

everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery!

I'm sure that we can handle this situation maturely, just like the responsible adults that we are. Isn't that right, Mr... Poopy Pants?

I'm a better and more educated person because of basketball.

I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there

The way we value black beauty has changed. I'm single now, but back in the slave days, I would have never been single. I'm 6 feet tall and I'm strong. Look at me, I'm a Mandingo.