Evelyn Poole Quotes & Sayings

Our point of view is, lets not be so elitist that we can't honor good, hard, dignified, ennobling work: people working with their hands, building things, putting up solar panels, weatherizing homes, working on organic agriculture, building wind farms. We don't have robots in society, so somebody has to do that work. Lets make sure that the people who can use that work get a chance to do it. I see that as a first step toward bigger and better things. — Van Jones

There was no paper in Hell. All the fire made it impractical. — Katrina Monroe

When he was with Finnerty he liked to pretend that he shared the man's fantastic and alternately brilliant or black inner thoughts - almost as though he were discontent with his own relative tranquility. — Kurt Vonnegut

God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot; I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine. — Anatole France

Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given with our hearts. — Jack Kornfield

(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.) — Jane Jacobs

There would be no value in worship services and symbols did they not, preserved in their Purity and Beauty, serve as aids to right living. — Lily Montagu

He has not shown the special interest in reading that we should like to see but he likes shop work. George H. W. Bush's parents on his Andover application — H.W. Brands

My life's mission is to unmask the Jews. — Julius Streicher

You often see shocks in the League Cup, even when you don't expect them — Jan Molby

Anything over eight is strictly for show-and-tell — Linda Howard

The world would see the beauty of the packaging, but only I knew the man inside it and how precious he was. His intimate smiles and his deep husky laugh, the gentleness of his touch and the ferocity of his passion were all reserved for me. — Sylvia Day

Faultfinding without suggestions for improvement is a waste of time. — Ralph C. Smedley

Prayer is sort of like an unlocked door with a giant, red-lettered sign on it that says: "Welcome. Feel Free to Take What You Need." Inside is the storehouse of all that God is. He invites us to share it all. He doesn't intend for us to stay on the outside and struggle all alone with the perplexities of life, and He not only invites us to come in, but to stay in ... It is an on-going process, not just an occasional religious-sounding speech we make to a nebulous divinity "out there somewhere." Prayer is meant to be a part of our lives, like breathing and thinking and talking. — Gloria Gaither

We don't need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, variety, beauty, challenge and a purpose in living that is greater than material accumulation. — Donella Meadows