Austens Aspiring Quotes & Sayings

Is important that we get still to wait on God. And it is best that we get alone, preferably with our Bible outspread before us. Then if we will we may draw near to God and begin to hear Him speak to us in our hearts. — A.W. Tozer

Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor. — Debra Dean

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives. — Jesse Eisenberg

Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books. — John Milton

Atheist isn't really the right word because they tended to believe in some sort of Enlightenment, capital 'N' Nature kind of god. But these were people who in their times were criticized as infidels. — Christine Jennings

Now there is a cultural change under way in the Foreign Service. — Lawrence Eagleburger

A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man. — H.L. Mencken

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way that I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. — Oliver Burkeman

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times ... I just shoot at what interests me at that moment. — Elliott Erwitt

Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is. — David Allan Coe

No one can learn tolerance in a climate of irresponsibility, which does not produce democracy. The act of tolerating requires a climate in which limits may be established, in which there are principles to be respected. That is why tolerance is not coexistence with the intolerable. Under an authoritarian regime, in which authority is abused, or a permissive one, in which freedom is not limited, one can hardly learn tolerance. Tolerance requires respect, discipline, and ethics. — Paulo Freire