Jami Davenport Quotes

He'd done it again. Screwed up in a social situation and dragged the whole team down with hm. His new team. The ones who were counting on him to be a leader on and off the field. He'd led them, all right, almost into a brawl. ~ Jami Davenport

Bruiser stared in the mirror hanging in his locker and ran a comb through his blond hair, wishing he had dark hair like Harris, or a mean look like Zach, or even a guy-next-door like Derek. Hell no, he looked like a f***ing movie star and he f***ing hated it. –-Backfield in Motion ~ Jami Davenport

He'd never considered sweet and conservative to be so hot, but damn, Emma wore it well. ~ Jami Davenport

It's good to pass on stories. ~ Jami Attenberg

On the 'Revenge' set, even if they're not showing my feet, I'll still wear my heels because it gets me in the feeling of Ashley Davenport. ~ Ashley Madekwe

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush. ~ Criss Jami

Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease. ~ Criss Jami

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing. ~ Criss Jami

Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.' ~ Criss Jami

Peace ought not be regarded the height of civilization, else like barbarians we forever battle for peace. ~ Criss Jami

A spirit ushered by false teachings is like a body nourished by sweets. The adult, as opposed to the child, will come to understand reasons one cannot live a healthy existence on nothing but candy; so likewise, the Christian must come to understand that one cannot know and love the will of God under false doctrine. ~ Criss Jami

No matter how many feminist tracts you read, you never forget what boys like. ~ Jami Attenberg

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism. ~ Criss Jami

He had thought providing for his wife was the greatest expression of devotion. Somehow it hadn't sufficed. How could I have loved her more? I never touched another woman. His sorrow was this: There was something she had needed, something she had tried to call forth from within him, that he did not possess. ~ Kiana Davenport

Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie. ~ Criss Jami

The creation of man is evidence for the love of God, the preservation of man is evidence for the patience of God, and Christ is evidence for the forgiveness of God. It is when we are wrapped up in our own little peeves that we begin to displace His benevolence with malevolence. ~ Criss Jami

You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself. ~ Criss Jami

The truth exposes some people so deeply, their last defense is to front a carefree insanity. ~ Criss Jami

Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains. ~ Criss Jami

In the modern Christian attempt to take a stand as Christ did, and maybe for others, win the approval of the world, the Christian will often think that it consists of targeting and demoralizing fellow Christians and only fellow Christians. It is one thing to stand against religious hypocrisy when one sees it, but it is another to go on snorting at anything or anyone who might seem 'too Christian' to us. The irony is that by doing this we are further advocating hypocrisy and 'half-hearted Christians'. ~ Criss Jami

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back. ~ Criss Jami

Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell. ~ Criss Jami

We've all got flesh. I've just got a little more. ~ Jami Attenberg

Our big mistake in modern intellectualism is first and foremost its lack of nuance. We have made science synonymous with atheism - a presupposed conception and yet, another means to non sequiturs - and therefore, to a number of enthusiasts determined to go the further, anti-theism. Hereby let us observe that science has long served best and should be, if none other, the one discipline, if at all possible, free of potential ideology, pro-religious or anti-religious, and/or biased presupposition in order to maintain the true authenticity and the full reliability of its nature. ~ Criss Jami

Let them spend their time condemning every action of persons they do not like; by this let them revoke their own condemnation licenses: no one will take them seriously when it comes time to condemn something that really needs to be condemned, and thus hear, hear, despite the excess noise, the reasonable voices may prevail. ~ Criss Jami

Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach. ~ Criss Jami

Still, one can be honest yet quite mistaken. ~ Criss Jami

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal. ~ Criss Jami

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone. ~ Criss Jami

I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things. ~ Guy Davenport

When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted. ~ Criss Jami

Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy. ~ Criss Jami

The root of honesty is an honest intention, the distinct and deliberate purpose to be true, to handle facts as they are, and not as we wish them to be. Facts lend themselves to manipulation. Many a butcher's hand is worth more than its weight in gold. What we want things to be, we come to see them to be; and the tailor pulls the coat and the truth into a perfect fit from his point of view. ~ Maltbie Davenport Babcock

If he's the stripper, then who are you?"
"I'm Cash Davenport. I own the club. ~ Michelle Leighton

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation. ~ Criss Jami

Everyone agreed that Edie was a tough woman to love, though she was worth loving. ~ Jami Attenberg

Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes. ~ Guy Davenport

Although there is a human settlement at Jakobshavn, Greenland is an inhuman landscape of never-ending wastes. ~ Richard Davenport-Hines

Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done. ~ Russell Davenport