Banal Banalan Quotes & Sayings

So I've come to the conclusion that it is thus my own fault when these people I have been talking about finally stop saying "Ah" and tell me it's a pity I always do such odd things. — Barbara Wright

The Bible never divorces the truth of Christ's future return with our present-day responsibilities. — Robert Jeffress

Compassion is a coat of fur I find particularly ill-fitting. — Ron Currie Jr.

Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance. — Edwin Way Teale

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature. — Trofim Lysenko

I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts from architectural quality. On the other hand, you can see in the public's identification something very positive. — Moshe Safdie

The trials of life are sent to make us, not to break us. — Lettie B. Cowman

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms. — William Beveridge

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued reams of playground regulations and actually gone so far as to recommend against "tripping hazards, like tree stumps and rocks." Maybe we should just bulldoze the local parks and put in a couple of blobs ... made of plastic. — Lenore Skenazy

The golf facet of my life doesn't go with the rest of my life, which is a rough-and-tumble life. I work in real estate development, which is the toughest business, and I do it in the toughest city. I deal with ruthless people. — Donald Trump

Desire is like the shadow caused by the morning sun; it gets longer when you run to catch it ... — Sathya Sai Baba

It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it. — Kenzaburo Oe

Enoch considered the defiance in the painted eyes and the subtle perversion expressed with curling lips, and then he touched a pair of frozen lips as if the smiling portrait might whisper some secret word into his hand. — W.H. Pugmire

We cultivate a very small field for Christ, but we love it, knowing that God does not require great achievements but a heart that holds back nothing for self. — Rose Philippine Duchesne