Bornhoft Rain Quotes & Sayings

Let your rest be perfect in its season, like the rest of waters that are still. If you will have a model or your living, take neither the stars, for they fly without ceasing, nor the ocean that ebbs and flows, nor the river that cannot stay, but rather let your life be like that of the summer air, which has times of noble energy and times of perfect peace. It fills the sails of ships upon the sea, and the miller thanks it on the breezy uplands; it works generously for the health and wealth of all men, yet it claims it hours of rest.. I have pushed the fleet, I have turned the mill, I have refreshed the city, and now though the captain may walk impatiently on the quarter-deck, and the miller swear, and the city stink, I will stir no more until it pleases me. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. — Robert A. Heinlein

In baseball, it's tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band's playing. I do miss that adrenaline rush. — Adam Dunn

If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one. — Chilon Of Sparta

If there's one area of me that the devil's got a hold of, it's my tongue. — Stefne Miller

There are plenty of fools in the world; but if they had not been sent for some wise purpose, they wouldn't have been here; and since they are here they have as good a right to have elbow-room in the world as the wisest. — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

The language that reveals also obscures. — Wendell Berry

I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul. — Thomas Merton

Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray. — A.B. Simpson

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I pledge to love Jesus more than anything or anyone. And you are next in line, God's remarkable gift to me. I promise to protect, honor, and cherish you for the rest of our lives. — Robert Wolgemuth

It is not your job to make something happen - Universal Forces are in place for all of that. Your work is to simply determine what you want. — Esther Hicks

But, as historian Gerda Lerner has pointed out, it is a shared characteristic of women's history - or the real history of any marginalized group - to be lost and discovered, lost again and re-discovered, re-lost and re-re-discovered, until the margins have transformed the center. As in a tree or a seed, the margins are where the growth is. Who would want to be anywhere else? — Gloria Steinem