Deangela Mathis Quotes & Sayings

A Mystery in short is an invitation to the mind. For it means that there is an inexhaustible well of Truth from which the mind may drink and drink again in the certainty that the well will never run dry, that there will always be water for the mind's thirst. — Frank Sheed

I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name. — William Wells Brown

The great man is always the man of mighty effort. — Theodore Roosevelt

Did you just pick them up out of their lives?'
'No,' she insisted, 'I waited 'till they were dead.'
'You dug them up?!'
'I would never! I have a cousin named Anubis and a brother named Osiris. — Emma Iadanza

I don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism." — Curtis Sittenfeld

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them. — Ogden Nash

In recent years we might be compared to a team of doctors issuing prescriptions to cure or to immunize our members against spiritual diseases. Each time some moral or spiritual ailment was diagnosed, we have rushed to the pharmacy to concoct another remedy, encapsulate it as a program and send it out with pages of directions for use... Over medication, over-programming is a critically serious problem. — Boyd K. Packer

And I really haven't done a damn thing. — Pat Tillman

Everybody's not going to understand where God has called you to go, but that is not an excuse for you not to go there. Then, when He puts you in certain places, it's a spiritual warfare to stay there. — CeCe Winans

The woods are full of regional writers, and it is the great horror of every serious Southern writer that he will become one of them. — Flannery O'Connor

However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. — George Washington

Some of the best advice I've gotten was from William Hurt and Harry Connick Jr. I've really learned a lot from both of them. — Chandler Canterbury

Life without death has become as unthinkable to me as day without night or waking without sleep. — Frederick Buechner

When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 A.M. every day - Why? Because she's there. — Helen Fisher

(Its) admirable words can purchase honour; (its) admirable deeds can raise their performer above others. — Lao-Tzu