Explanations Famous Quotes & Sayings

I have come to believe that contentment is a virtue we can aspire to rather than a state we can achieve. — Dave Bruno

It is not difficult to nourish admirable thoughts when the stars are present. — Marguerite Yourcenar

Over a period of forty years, God gave the children of Israel nothing to eat except manna ... From John 6 we ... know that this heavenly manna is a type of Christ. Christ came from God to be our diet. We need to eat Him, drink Him, and breathe Him ... As God's people today, we need to be reconstituted with Christ as our very element. In this way, we shall become Christ as far as our constitution is concerned. — Witness Lee

I looked at her dress and I thought, Oh no, it's awful. Because it was all scrunched up, it looked terrible. I just remember thinking, It doesn't look like it's been ironed. The Emanuels reacted the same way and dashed to the rescue. Once the train was properly spread out on the carpeted steps, it looked as dazzling as the young woman who was wearing it. — Tim Clayton

At my age, I only travel business class because I just don't bend anymore; my body can't cope with it. — Peter Hook

If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George Patton Jr. (1885-1945) — Thad Forester

Whether there is spec buying or not is not the greatest factor in the high cost of pharmaceuticals. — Stewart Rahr

If people would treat themselves with the same kind of love they give to their friends, that would be such a great gift we could give ourselves. — Cindy Crawford

Poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God. — Marjorie Holmes

The row of villas which lines Western Avenue is like a row of pink graves in a field of grey; an architectural image of middle age. Their uniformity is the discipline of growing old, of dying without violence and living without success. They are houses which have got the better of their occupants, whom they change at will, and do not change themselves. Furniture vans glide respectfully among them like hearses, discreetly removing the dead and introducing the living. Now and then some tenant will raise his hand, expending pots of paint on the woodwork or labour on the garden, but his efforts no more alter the house than flowers a hospital ward, and the grass will grow its own way, like grass on a grave. — John Le Carre

Now let me get this straight. Bush is anti-abortion, but pro-death penalty. I guess it's all in the timing, huh? — Dennis Miller