Dejonna Bates Quotes & Sayings

Soaking" seems like a crazy word in an intimacy book. Yet that is exactly what you want to do in your relational time with Him, you want to "soak in and soak up" His presence, "soak in and soak up" His love. — Linda Boone

I was always telling myself I could handle a more complex role, I could handle something bigger and more interesting than the work I was doing. But I wasn't demanding that of myself. At a certain point, I realized it was never going to come my way unless I started taking more control of it. That's what I realized I had to do. — Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I support all efforts to protect the security of the state of Israel, — Anwar Ibrahim

This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

Happily, solving problems by intensifying production and increasing complexity does not always yield catastrophic results. — Joseph A. Tainter

We don't want to be the conquistadors. We want to be Charles Darwin. — Lydia Millet

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. — H.L. Mencken

NEW MILFORD, CONNECTICUT — Andrew Britton

Thus looked at from outside, these guests
--in this dead-and-alive dining room, of this dead-and-alive house, of this dead-and-alive street, of this dead-and-alive little town--in grey, dead winter of the deadliest part of the most deadly war in history--thus seen from a detached point of view, they presented an extraordinary spectacle. — Patrick Hamilton

JESUS is the way, truth and life. So I'l never be lost, wrong and dead in him. — Evans Biya

Better to live in the truth, however terrible, than to murder your true self by living a lie. — Susan Howatch

We must learn not to give up when requirements are not met or when commitments are broken. To do so is a refusal to allow mistakes to be corrected and a demonstration of an unwillingness to forgive yourself or anyone else who needs forgiveness. — Iyanla Vanzant

The irony of the present day is, the more human rights jurisprudence seems to be fortified, the more there are human rights violations in newer and newer forms and some recidivism all due to the conflicting deductions of protecting even human rights of offenders. No doubts offenders deserve their rights to be protected but in cases of serious offenses such as 'rape' where the offender consciously commits the act while being aware of the justice system in his particular country, prefers to cross the precincts of the law. Worst still, is increasing crime rate of offenses such as rape committed against children and infants. — Henrietta Newton Martin