Backstairs Billy And The Queen Quotes & Sayings

Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters. — Phyllis Bottome

I once ate McDonald's three times in one day. — Christina Ricci

Cruelty lacks pleasure when it's directed at you, doesn't it? — Sarah MacLean

I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed. — Werner Herzog

I mean it felt my heart might just burst. Bursting is different than breaking. Like there is no way to contain how beautiful. — Peter Heller

The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints. — Matthew Henry

When it comes to the nitty-gritty, what ties these threads of biblical narrative together into a revelation of God's love is that God has commanded us to refrain from grumbling about the dailiness of life. Instead we are meant to accept it as a reality that humbles us even as it gives cause for praise. The rhythm of sunrise and sunset marks a passage of time that marks each day rich with the possibility of salvation. — Kathleen Norris

Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways. — Roger Von Oech

Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can be practiced in cities and suburbs, townhouses and condominiums. It requires neither a log cabin nor a hairshirt but a deliberate ordering of priorities so as to distinguish between the necessary and superfluous, useful and wasteful, beautiful and vulgar. — David Shi

Perhaps the biggest obstacle to a more rational debate about cholesterol, heart disease, or any other health problem is the simple fact that too many of the people we turn to for advice on such matters - our doctors - are tied to the makers of drugs. Sometimes those ties involve several hundred thousand dollars a year, sometimes just a few warm doughnuts. RAY MOYNIHAN AND ALAN CASSELS, SELLING SICKNESS Furthermore, — Nora T. Gedgaudas

Acceptance and its counterpart, understanding, are crucial to achieving relationship harmony. It is sacred love, the highest form of love, and like most things worth striving for in life, it requires patience, commitment, personal responsibility, and practice. — Arielle Ford

I'm quite old-fashioned. I like going out to dinner. You have the chance to talk to somebody and get to know them better. — Harry Styles

I'm a comedian, and I like to work on my live show, and if I'm doing television, I don't have time to work on my live show, and I can become a lame comic, and that sucks. — Ron White

I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions. — Gerry Adams