Ancona Quotes & Sayings

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers. — Gerald R. Ford

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with. — Marcus Aurelius

When the things you can buy online matter more to you than the things you can do in your neighbourhood; when you communicate with social media friends you never meet more than your real friends; when your notion of public space is confined to the screen in your hand: all this removes the sinew of citizenship — Matthew D'Ancona

The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe. — Casey Neistat

They were a susitute. They were what you did when you couldn't have what you wanted. — Connie Willis

The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it. — Bat For Lashes

I'm good at not laughing. It's not that I don't want to. I'm too old and experienced. — Jacki Weaver

Come with me to howling tree?"
"What?"
"Howling tree. It's a place a found. Come on — Debbie Moon

Quick, where is the Red Cross God with the ointment and plaster the needle and thread and the clean linen bandages to mummify our festering dreams? — Janet Frame

I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the normal portion of faithful pastoral ministry. — John Piper

You might as well live — Elizabeth Taylor

Everybody is clever, just in their own ways — Matt Groening

Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity. — William C. Menninger