Farty Marty Quotes & Sayings

When I was 18, I went to India and was stupid enough to drink the tap water. I ended up with dysentery. It's not an experience I wish to go through again. — Tom Parker Bowles

If a person says or does something that we consider offensive, our first obligation is to refuse to take offense and then communicate privately, honestly, and directly with that individual. Such an approach invites inspiration from the Holy Ghost and permits misperceptions to be clarified and true intent to be understood. — David A. Bednar

All spiritual techniques seek to awaken fallen man from the dream in which he lives : he dreams continuously of individual state of being, and of the many forms through which the external world presents itself to him; he builds for himself a paradise of illusions, so as to forget the absence of God. To recover the vision of the spiritual world, the soul of man must "die" to this dream, this ceaseless flow of images which fallen man regards as normal, everyday state of his consciousness. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The conversations came as waves, back and forth, tidal shores of separate oceans. — Jamie Ford

You catch more flies with honey, ever heard of that?" He shrugged. "I don't like flies. They're annoying." He grinned "I'd rather catch hell. — Heather Hildenbrand

Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects. — Epictetus

All living beings have experience of pleasure and pain, and we are among them. What makes human beings different is that we have a powerful intelligence and a much greater ability to achieve happiness and avoid suffering. Real happiness and friendship come not from money or even knowledge, but from warm-heartednes s. Once we recognize this we will be more inclined to cultivate it. — Dalai Lama

The diffrense from a person and an angel is easy. Most of an angel is in the inside and most of a person is on the outside. — Fynn

Now, properly speaking, grace is never in a person's heart, but in God's heart. First a person must believe. After that he may feel. Feeling proceeds from faith - not faith from feeling. — C.F.W. Walther

Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s. — Sam Kean

You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing? — Kahlil Gibran

What is the distance between here and there, between now and then, between right and wrong? In Greg Baxter's pellucid first novel, 'The Apartment,' it may be simply the length of a day - but a day in which one travels surprisingly far, literally and figuratively. — Stacey D'Erasmo

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted. — Constance Baker Motley

I am for anyone that will give me lower taxes, stop all this stupid spending. Whoever promises me that gets this chicken's vote. — Joan Rivers