Conceptually Accurate Quotes & Sayings

Our house is quiet, small and plain,
and yet its rooms run far and wide.
A hundred pencils, swift as rain,
writing on sheets of beaten gold
would not be quick enough to hold
the strange adventures
shadows hide ... — Nancy Willard

In all states of dilemma or of difficulty, prayer is an available source. The ship of prayer may sail through all temptations, doubts and fears, straight up to the throne of God; and though she may be outward bound with only griefs, and groans, and sighs, she shall return freighted with a wealth of blessings! — Charles Spurgeon

If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists. — Bill Gates

I have seen a lot of people, by the way, who were pro-life become pro-choice. No one seems to have any difficulty with that at all. That's easily accepted. But, if you are pro-choice and you become pro-life, there are a lot of folks, particularly in the media, who find that unacceptable. — Mitt Romney

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky. — Tinashe

We are to make a plan for the day, pray over that plan, and then proceed with that plan. When we are willing to regard the unexpected as God's intervention, we can flex with the new plan, recognizing it as God's plan. — Elizabeth George

Clive Barker is just genius, and he's incredibly gifted in so many different ways. He can write and direct and paint and do all these different things, and he can do them all extremely well. — Scott Bakula

I definitely don't see myself as an actor. I don't even have it on my passport. I've got 'writer and electrician' on my passport. I don't want anyone to think I'm an actor. — John Gordon Sinclair

Being alone is a frame of mind that becomes comfortable and relatively stress free so even the prospect of socializing can seem like too much effort. — Peter W. Murphy

No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts. — Herbert Spencer

Since the adventure some of those who worked with me have buried themselves in the shallow grave of public duty. — T.E. Lawrence

No pain, no death, is more terrible to a wild creature than its fear of man. — J.A. Baker

Just because I'm a capitalist doesn't mean I'm a black-hearted bastard. — Ransom Riggs

A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down. — Nick Hornby