Arletta Quotes & Sayings

That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done. — Ned Vizzini

Steven Adler was really nice, and expressed himself with an infectious, almost childlike enthusiasm. He said, Listen, we're going to be great - going to get the feet stompin' and the hands clappin'. — Duff McKagan

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves. — Frank Herbert

Rendering thanks to my Creator for my existence and station among His works, for my birth in a country enlightened by the Gospel and enjoying freedom, and for all His other kindnesses, to Him I resign myself, humbly confiding in His goodness and in His mercy through Jesus Christ for the events of eternity. — John Dickinson

A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 PM to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch. — Fred Allen

It was raining when Amarelle Parathis went out just after sunset to find a drink, and there was strange magic in the rain. It came down in pale lavenders and coppers and reds, soft lines like liquid dusk that turned luminescent mist on the warm pavement. The air itself felt like champagne bubbles breaking against the skin. Over the dark shapes of distant rooftops, blue-white lightning blazed, and stuttering thunder chased it. — Scott Lynch

By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings. — Alphonsus Liguori

The average pagan, like the average agnostic, would merely say that he was content with himself, but so insolently self-satisfied, that there were many better and many worse ... This proper pride does not lift the heart like the tongue of trumpets; you cannot go glad in crimson and gold for this. On the other hand, this mild rationalist modesty does not cleanse the soul with fire and make it clear like crystal; it does not (like a strict and searching humility) make a man as a little child, who can sit at the feet of the grass. It does not make him look up and see marvels ... Thus it loses both the poetry of being proud and the poetry of being humble. — G.K. Chesterton

She opened her heart and her home to her Purpose, and waited for it to come in. — Rita Leganski

'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me! — Walter Scott

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself. — Baruch Spinoza

Pain is one of those hideous places that once visited you have to fight your way out and even when you think you have escaped you are permanently branded — Anna Todd

My mother and father stressed education and always made sure we had a place to study and books to read. — Len Elmore

Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night. — Ben Webster