Effeline Quotes & Sayings

Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience. — John Shelby Spong

Brenda is staring at Roamer and the rest of the crying herd, her eyes dry and angry. I know what she's feeling. Here are these people who called him 'freak' and never paid attention to him, except to make fun of him or spread rumors about him, and now they are carrying on like professional mourners, the ones you can hire in Taiwan or the Middle East to sing, cry, and crawl on the ground. His family is just as bad. — Jennifer Niven

Your spring self is anxious to shed your winter mistakes. — Patrick Trotti

Make nothing of God's authority. God threatens, but they despise His threatenings. They make nothing of dishonoring God. They care not how much their behavior is to His — J.C. Ryle

New Rule: The people of America who were most in favor of the Iraq War must now go there and fight it. — Bill Maher

All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged
after all, what's good enough for Jane Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. But it's a lie. The story is about to begin, and every day will be a new piece of the plot. — Mary Ann Shaffer

An awful lot has been written about my temper. — Norman Schwarzkopf

The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal. — C.S. Lewis

If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will be what Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error reflecting the fact that he is not quite God. — Paul Krugman

-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? -Certainly. I'd know me anywhere. — Terry Pratchett

I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you. — John Fogerty

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. — Blaise Pascal