1187 Quotes & Sayings

There is power in every choice to benefit you or harm you. There is power in every action to reward you or penalize you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

If we're not the one driving our dreams forward, who is? If we don't figure out how to change jobs, eat healthily, date, fall and stay in love, who will come save us? No one. But, then again, no one should, right? The are, after all, our dreams. — Lauren Handel Zander

Haiku Christmas Story

New light in the sky
announces a sacred birth.
Shine brightly young star.

Hallelujah song
carries on a gentle wind,
heralding a king.

Shepherds lift their heads,
not to gaze at a new light
but to hear angels.

"Unto you is born
in the city of David
a Savior for all."

Born on straw at night
under low stable rafters,
Baby Jesus cried.

Sheep and goats and cows
gather 'round a manger bed
to awe at a babe.

Wise men come to see
a child of greater wisdom
and honor divine.

Rare and precious gifts,
gold and myrrh and frankincense,
to offer a king.

Mary and Joseph
huddle snugly together.
They cradle God's son.

On this wise He came,
the Son of God to the earth.
A humble wonder. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again. — Ethel Waters

Perhaps the best-known Old Testament example of perseverance is the story of Job. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

cram's with praise, and make's
As fat as tame things.
One good deed dying tongueless
Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that.
Our praises are our wages; you may ride's
With one soft kiss a thousand furlongs ere
With spur we heat an acre. — William Shakespeare

Not only that - college doesn't particularly qualify you for the outside world. he world is changing so fast, and college is not. It should strive to be more in tune with the world. — Kent McCord

My chosen occupation isn't necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor. — Sarah Gadon

Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself. — Brett Dennen

Men are generally more law-abiding than women. Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them. — Diane Johnson

Bernard was stunned. He knew the Germans had hauled away millions of bottles of wine from his country; he had even seen some of it stolen from the village where he once worked, but a wine cellar on top of a mountain seemed incredible. To be the one who would open it was almost overwhelming. — Don Kladstrup

He looked natural and unrushed, and had obviously had a lot of experience at either chicanery or skulduggery, depending on which word was better suited for describing officially sanctioned mischief. — Jeff Lindsay