Bobette Townson Quotes & Sayings

We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order. — John Vanbrugh

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers. — Khalil Gibran

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff. — Carl Reiner

The left controls academia, the culture, and the news media. — Monica Crowley

Nothing but your choices define your true intelligence. — Debasish Mridha

Caring means cultivating the skills of an active listener. That is easier said than done, as an anecdote about the extraordinary social skills of British politicianBenjamin Disraeli and his rival William Gladstone illustrates ... The rivalry between the two statesmen piqued the curiosity of American Jennie Jerome, admired beauty and the mother of Winston Churchill. Ms. Jerome arranged to dine with Gladstone and then with Disraeli, on consecutive evenings. Afterward, she described the difference between the two men this way: "When I left the dining room after sitting next to Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But when I sat next to Disraeli, I left feeling that I was the cleverest woman. — Marian Deegan

Loving yourself comes first from there everything else falls into place — Shellie Palmer

In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors crowded down to the water's edge and tore each other like wild beasts in their rage of hunger. The paper set forth, in horrified language, that some of them had been seventy-two hours without food. I, as I read, had also been seventy-two hours without food; and the difference was simply that they thought they were starving. — Upton Sinclair

We sometimes forget that we are God-beings, and that the intent of the Creator was for us to enjoy this thing called Life! — Louise Hay

Everything in life is either science or poetry... And sometimes, just sometimes, a thing is both. — Katandra Jackson Nunnally

Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve yourself, your improve your world. — Joe Vitale

A fitting room to me has always been like a confessional ... where my body and my contrition take up the entire room. — Erma Bombeck

Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data. — Peter Drucker

You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a happy thing to possess, for nothing on earth - no goal, no person how ever beloved - will answer it. It points to the sky and to the heavens and the stars and when it cannot reach them, it must fall back to pierce your heart. — Isobelle Carmody

He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never understand. In fate there was reward, in turning over one's heart to God there was a magnificence that lay beyond description. At the moment one is sure that all is lost, look at what is gained! — Ann Patchett