Embury Institute Quotes & Sayings

Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD. — Oscar Wilde

Time has a funny way of airbrushing relationships, removing all the things that were wrong so when you look back it looks much better than it really was. — Alexandra Potter

You need to acquire a lover, Madam President. — Lynn Raye Harris

Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty. — Michel De Montaigne

Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it. — Rob Bell

I'm from L.A., but everyone thinks that I'm British. — Banks

I spend long days wearing a corset - but no pain, no gain. — Phyllis Logan

Pray silence for the soloist. But let him be soon over, that we may hear the great striding fugue again. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry or fear. Go as fast as you can , but never hurry. — Wallace D. Wattles

My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways. — Gary Lineker

I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed. — Marian Engel