Conscription Crisis 1917 Quotes & Sayings

Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops. — James Fenton

As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed. — Bashar Al-Assad

Prayer is the key ingredient of the church. The enemy hates it when we pray. — Jacob Peterson

The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your amazement, you can breathe down there after all and there's a whole other world. I'm talking about the kind of reading when you realize that books are indeed interactive ... I'm talking about the kind of deep-read where it isn't just the plot or the characters that matter, but the words and the way they fit together and the meandering evanescent thoughts you think between the lines: the kind of reading where you are fleetingly aware of your own mind at work. — Tim Wynne-Jones

One of the Enemy's most effective strategies is to get you to focus on what you don't have, what you used to have, or what someone else has that you wish you had. He does this to keep you from looking around and asking, God, what can You do through what I have? — Steven Furtick

Inventive man has invented nothing
nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds. — Dorothy Thompson

Courage is not the absence of fear; true courage is manifest in bravely doing what has to be done in spite of fears or foes or the foolishness of the crowd or the taunts of the group. True courage is doing the right thing in spite of the odds or opposition or apprehension. — Emerson Roy West

I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship. — Graham Norton

Ahem. Dear Jesus," Taylor intoned more fervently. "We just want to thank you for gettin' us here safe
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There was a loud, gurgling groan. Somebody shouted, "Oh my gosh! Miss Delaware just died!"
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for gettin some of us here safe," Taylor continued. "And we pray that, as we are fine, upstandin', law-abidin' girls who represent the best of the best, you will protect us from harm and keep us safe until we are rescued and can tell our story to People magazine. Amen."
- "Beauty Queens — Libba Bray

I don't think I'm identified as the anchorman, I think I'm identified as the impostor anchorman - there's a very clear line there ... I don't think it changes the way they respond. — John Oliver

People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians. — George Lucas

I knew deep in my heart that no one would ever compare to you. That no one else would ever own my heart and soul. That night you branded me as yours. — Heidi McLaughlin

He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the less space. He walked as softly as the Ghost in Hamlet, and more slowly. — Charles Dickens

We spend a lot of time trying to get more and more things, not realizing that those things can never fulfill us. Learn from those who have gone before you - stuff can never satisfy your desires, so focus on THE ONE who can. — Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

I'd always thought that heavy metal - what I knew of it, anyway - was for tragic losers with acne and inch-thick glasses who fantasised about slaying dragons and riding Harleys, failing to realise at the time that the only loser was me. Fortunately, a good friend of mine played me 'Battery' from Metallica's Master Of Puppets album and the scales fell instantly from my eyes. It was a total revelation. — Joel McIver