Arching Oaks Quotes & Sayings

Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature. — Agnes Smedley

I hear from the business community all the time that what they need is an educated work force. They need an infrastructure that can make people and products. You need to cultivate an environment that they can imagine living in and being in, having employees be in. And a fair tax structure. And a responsive government. — Allyson Schwartz

I think you have forgotten, my young friend, that the blood of the spotless lambs on Passover cover your own sins, too. — Tessa Afshar

Of course, I would like to play the guy next door, but nobody's going to hire me for that kind of role. — Brad Dourif

If God's Word says He hears and answers prayer, and if that Word doesn't depart from before your eyes, then you're bound to see yourself with the things you asked for. If you don't see yourself with the things you desire, then God's Word has departed from before your eyes. — Kenneth E. Hagin

Two gorgeous guys slaving in the kitchen. Doesn't get any better than this.'
'You have low standards,' Chait grinned over his shoulder and dropped bread into the toaster. 'If I had two hot girls in my kitchen, I'd want them naked.'
I stood immobile, seeing Chait and Hayden in my minds eye. Naked, cooking for me.
Hayden glanced my way and chuckled as I dashed away. — Veronica Blade

So many people, if the truth were known, live their lives on two levels. The principles they fight about are often at odds with the complicated and often frustrated lives they live. This is why there is so much intensity. — Walter Wink

But we can never forget that at the end of time, the world will have such a Happily Ever After that even the mountains will sing of it. Until then, we give people hope, we help them feel, and we create broken, beautiful things because we live in a broken, beautiful world and we should give people a glimpse of heaven amid the fragments. — Mirriam Neal

Who would I least want to hang out with? Probably John Lotter. I guess I have a place of understanding for everyone I've played. — Peter Sarsgaard

The longer the time that has elapsed, the more things fall into proportion. One sees them in their true relationship to one another. — Agatha Christie

The oaks along the ridge were writhing like tortured epileptics in the winds, and she could make out through the thick rain a cascade of water like a cataract come roiling down the inside slope toward her; a vast arching spray exploded bright against the dark sky as the Gulf slammed over the chenier. — Samuel Snoek-Brown

Writers really don't retire, you know. They have to be taken out and shot. — James Salter

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Thank you, I said. I have lived in my own book. One I never planned to write, recording time backwards and forwards. — Patti Smith

Our work - is to do the part assigned to us in order to inherit the glory and honor and dignity of which I speak. — Bruce R. McConkie