Feuille De Laurier Quotes & Sayings

Men are like children, in that, if you spoil them, they become naughty. Therefore it is well not to be too indulgent or charitable with anyone. You may take it as a general rule that you will not lose a friend by refusing him a loan, but that you are very likely to do so by granting it; and, for similar reasons, you will not readily alienate people by being somewhat proud and careless in your behavior; but if you are very kind and complaisant towards them, you will often make them arrogant and intolerable, and so a breach will ensue. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Seeing Grandma this way, it makes me know for certain that everything about a person will show up in another person in the family. — Heidi W. Durrow

Life is education.
Education is a lifetime knowledge. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy ... — Rebecca West

Twenty minutes later, just as Stella thought she was going to collapse with worry and anticipation, her father, the pastor, and Mr. Spencer emerged from the polling station, smiles lighting their faces. And now she saw what she'd expected to see earlier in Mr. Spencer's eyes. They were on fire. — Sharon M. Draper

To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate. — Robert Owen

For many potential Bible readers, this expectation that the Bible is univocal is paralyzing. You notice what seem to be contradictions or tensions between different voices in the text. You can't find an obvious way to reconcile them. You figure that it must be your problem. You don't know how to read it correctly, or you're missing something. You're not holy enough to read the Holy Bible. It might even be sacrilege for you to try. If the Bible is God's perfect infallible Word, then any misunderstanding or ambiguity must be the result of our own depravity. That is, our sinful nature as fallen creatures is what separates us from God, and therefore from God's Word. So you either give up or let someone holier than thou tell you "what it really says." I think that's tragic. You're letting someone else impoverish it for you, when in fact you have just brushed up against the rich polyvocality of biblical literature. — Timothy Beal

Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing. — Immanuel Kant

I would have to say I've been on the 'Opry' at least 30-35-40 times a year for ... 51-52 years. — Jim Ed Brown

It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone. — Vera Nazarian

If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth. — Angelus Silesius

Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously. — Fyodor Dostoevsky