Dabrin Pattern Quotes & Sayings

If somebody takes the time, a: to read a book that I have written, and then to b: care about it enough to write me and ask questions, surely I owe them a response. — Lois Lowry

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't. — Alfred North Whitehead

The wise speak only of what they know — J.R.R. Tolkien

The barricade was taking some while to dismantle. Chair legs and planks and bedsteads and doors and baulks of timber had settled into a tangled mass. Since every piece belonged to someone, and Ankh-Morpork people care about that sort of thing, it was being dismantled by collective argument. — Terry Pratchett

The world is a palace without bedsheets — Suchet Chaturvedi

Do not ask the stones or the trees how to live, they can not tell you ; they do not have tongues; do not ask the wise man how to live for, if he knows , he will know he cannot tell you; if you would learn how to live , do not ask the question; its answer is not in the question but in the answer, which is not in words; do not ask how to live, but, instead, proceed to do so. — John Norman

Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery. — Benjamin Franklin

Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain. — Lewis B. Smedes

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind. — Phillips Brooks

I never cared," he said. "I wanted you anyway. I always wanted you. — Cassandra Clare

You ain't too smart, are ya boy? I'm Javier "Bones" Jones. I'm the baddest man there is in this town or any town through The Mississippi. You thinking you're gonna waltz up on me and kill me? Ha! I'll do for you like I did for my late dog and put you out of your misery. — Justin Bienvenue

When first you enter Wisdom's sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there. — Farid Al-Din Attar

Everything that has to do with sex is somehow ... it's the best thing in the world, and it's still the one thing people don't want you to talk about. — Tove Lo

God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen. — Philip Yancey

The secret in any situation is the strength of spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita