Decoratively Skewered Quotes & Sayings

Redemption encompasses both of these scenes: God's full and complete entry into the conditions of a world suffering in sin and death and God's resurrection of Jesus to new life, as the firstborn of the new creation. — Richard Robert Osmer

The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have. — Bill Gates

He was a funny old dog. He liked strawberries. — Margaret Wise Brown

The extreme situation in Somalia favored the imposition of international conservatorship. At this point, what I have termed strategies of construction and maintenance overlap. Conservatorship may involve international territorial administration. International territorial administration, in turn, may simultaneously involve the construction of new, and the maintenance and reequilibration of surviving, institutions of state. — Robert I. Rotberg

The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. — Seneca The Younger

You are a work of art. — Steven Morrissey

It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are, the more human you are. — Drew Barrymore

I do not now begin,
I still adore
Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast;
Then once again with prudence dispossess'd,
And to whose heart I'm driven back once more.
The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love,
Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad ... — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person. — Ben Moody

When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control. — William Glasser

Preparing for the ups and downs of life. — Robert D. Hales

It's in the god's hands. — Janet Morris

Is that all souls are for? For when we die?"
"No. They're for living, too. — Laini Taylor

I want to kiss her like we're inventing the idea. — A. Wilding Wells

If the world is like a giant scheming court and we are trapped inside it, there is no use in trying to opt out of the game. That will only render you powerless, and powerlessness will make you miserable. Instead of struggling against the inevitable, instead of arguing and whining and feeling guilty, it is far better to excel at power. In fact, the better you are at dealing with power, the better friend, lover, husband, wife, and person you become. — Robert Greene