28th Bday Quotes & Sayings

If you would understand this secret, you must first understand the distinction between training an animal and educating one. Trained animals are relatively easy to turn out. All that is required is a book of instructions, a certain amount of bluff and bluster, something to use for threatening and punishing purposes, and of course the animal. Educating an animal, on the other hand, demands keen intelligence, integrity, imagination, and the gentle touch, mentally, vocally, and physically. — J. Allen Boone

The running pants were tolerable, Drustan decided, relieved. The blue trews had clearly been a torture device and would have strangled a man's seed. Mayhap men were fashioned differently in her time. He hadn't seen one other bulge out there on the street; mayhap they all had wee carrots in their trews. — Karen Marie Moning

I'm a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are - there's no black and white. We have shades of grey in the middle. And even many more colours that other people don't see! — Shakira

The temptation to hide in his job, to allow all his thoughts and emotions to become absorbed in the details of his career was hard to resist. It felt like virtue and it was quite possible to be completely self-righteous about it. But it was, he knew, only cowardice in disguise. If you weren't willing to face your life - all your life, including the rough parts - then you weren't truly living. You were just making a living. He — Pamela Morsi

The whole world is caught in her glance
and at last
the universe is
magnificent. — Charles Bukowski

The meaning is the ending. — Apostolos Doxiadis

The fulfillment of every desire only reveals its inadequacy. — Swami Prabhavananda

Bethlehem was God with us, Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us. — Robert Baer

Never answer a critic, unless he's right. — Bernard Baruch

I'm a mother, and my life is very full. — Sheherazade Goldsmith

For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs. — John Bercow

He (Ozzie Smith) plays like he's on a mini-trampoline or wearing helium kangaroo shorts. — Andy Van Slyke

For a moment we sit in silence. Eventually, I turn to him and say, "Do you believe in God?"
His eyes narrow for a moment and he stares at me at me for a while. Stares in a rather intense way, like a doctor looking at a troubling X-ray. Then he looks out the and says in a voice like shattered glass, "Only in storms. — Rebecca Sparrow

Holiness brings God glory — Sunday Adelaja

From the late 19th century until the 1970s, the advanced societies of the West were all becoming less unequal. Thanks to progressive taxation, government subsidies for the poor, the provision of social services and guarantees against acute misfortune, modern democracies were shedding extremes of wealth and poverty. — Tony Judt