Embetter Quotes & Sayings

I have always had this failing - that I cannot explain myself, as I have said, except at the cost of many words. — Teresa Of Avila

The educated can listen impassively to almost anything. — Mason Cooley

Part of the faith walk is to understand your weaknesses and is to constantly try to embetter yourself and get closer to the Lord. — George W. Bush

Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people. — Joan Cusack

Some bloke got put in prison for three days because he refused to stop kissing his boyfriend on a plane flight to South Africa. How magic is that? You can't help but picturing him dressed entirely in latex, surrounded by a sea of hate. --"Alright, lads, I'm gonna make this flight fairly tense for you. Ramon, let's do the bad thing." *kissing sounds*
-"Stop doing that, mate, it's not natural!"
-"You're flying"
-"I'll have you put in prison!"
-"What, with men? Think it through. — Russell Howard

My dog," he said, "just barks and plays -has all he wants to eat. He never works- has no trouble about business. In a little while he dies, and that is all. I work with all my strength. I have no time to play. I have trouble every day. In a little while I will die, and then I go to hell. I wish that I had been a dog. — Robert G. Ingersoll

Slur The Riverhill Trilogy: Book 1 By Heather Burnside — Diane Mannion

A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook. — Jane Hirshfield

In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing with general principles, he must furnish particular instances of their application. — William Strunk Jr.

For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow. — Peter Orszag

Never mistrust, unless given a reason. — Sonia Rumzi

It is critical, therefore, in every new generation and setting to find ways to communicate the gospel clearly and strikingly, distinguishing it from its opposites and counterfeits. — Timothy Keller

When you set out on you journey to Ithaka, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge. — Constantine P. Cavafy

How useful Mr. Carver's Esperanto would be, she thought. (Only if everyone spoke it, of course.) — Kate Atkinson

Through science, she could reach anyone at anytime around the world, but no one seemed to know what to say. — David Paul Kirkpatrick

If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned. — Samantha Power