Basbanes Wetland Quotes & Sayings

I've never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he's just ruined — Lisa Kleypas

Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place in which you can listen to the voice of the One who calls you the beloved. To pray is to listen to the One who calls you 'my beloved daughter,' 'my beloved son,' 'my beloved child.' To pray is to let that voice speak to the center of your being, to your guts, and let that voice resound in your whole being. — Henri Nouwen

Phyllis, then seventeen, had grown into a lovely girl, although she was still in school uniform.
Thus, Hera made it known that her beautiful daughter's virginity was once more for sale & she had set the asking price at twenty thousand dollars. She would use the proceeds from the sale to clear her debts, & the surplus, she would give to Vicky in compensation for the three thousand dollars she had paid four years earlier to preserve Phyllis' virginity.[MMT] — Nicholas Chong

Did you hear about the woman who sent out 40,000 Valentine Cards doused in perfume and signed, "Guess Who?" She's a divorce lawyer. — Robert Orben

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports. — John Hodgman

To become a great leader, you have to keep trying. — Paul King

It took us 6 years to get the right weapons to fight BokoHaram ... — Goodluck Jonathan

It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to play and be passive. — John Taylor Gatto

Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. — Kurt Vonnegut

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness. — William James

Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd love to work with. I'm a big fan of Paul Thomas Anderson's films - I would be honored to work with him. I think he's a brilliant director, and he gets such compelling stories out of his actors and out of his crew. — Tatiana Maslany

Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort. — James Madison

I pitch Mint to everyone from investors to engineers, young and old, and I do it pretty much the same way: Here's the problem in the market place, here's how we solve it, and here's how we make money. — Aaron Patzer