Dan Holman Quotes & Sayings

Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's terrorizes us, it has power over us. When we are prepared to discuss it aloud, we might have power over it. It's thought of as a mental illness and it is a physical illness, affecting the brain. There should be no shame in having it, yet people still don't talk about it — Terry Pratchett

She did not know that she was wishing for nothing more, and something a little less, than the kingdom of heaven - the very thing she thought the laird and Cosmo so strange for troubling their heads about. If men's wishes are not always for what the kingdom of heaven would bring them, their miseries at least are all for the lack of that kingdom. — George MacDonald

I dance to the music in my heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

At the same time, we may not as a culture be fond of old-fashioned supernaturalism, but we certainly like spirituality in whatever form we can get it. I suspect that if anyone other than Jesus (Krishna, say, or Buddha) were suddenly put forward as being due for a second coming, millions in our postsecular society would embrace such a thing uncritically, leaving Enlightenment rationalism huffing and puffing in the rear. We are a puzzled and confused generation, embracing any and every kind of nonrationalism that may offer us a spiritual shot in the arm while lapsing back into rationalism (in particular, the old modernist critiques) whenever we want to keep traditional or orthodox Christianity at bay. — N. T. Wright

Canada was regarded as a hostage to restrain Britain, — Barbara W. Tuchman

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people. — Leonardo DiCaprio

The real beauty is living life to it's fullest, to reach a destination and live life for the Lord. — Shellie Palmer

We're just as screwed up and brave and false and loyal and wrong and right as anyone else. — Patrick Ness

She didn't want anyone reading her impermanent thoughts after she had permanently left the planet. — Wendy Wunder

I'm just a girl, standing in front of a handbasket, waiting for my ride to hell. — Kayti McGee

I've always wanted to make a film. — Brian Cox

It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it. — Brian Mulroney

I'm recognizable in certain circles, like girls know me, couples know me. But not all straight men know me. — Patti Stanger

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire. — William Congreve