Foregathered Quotes & Sayings

The Holy Spirit, thank God, often enables people to forgive even though they are not sure how they did it. — Lewis B. Smedes

If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance. — Honore De Balzac

Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity. — Billy Graham

You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love. — Oprah Winfrey

Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel like a ship with no rudder. — Andy Partridge

Promise me, you will always be there for me. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant. — Patricia Churchland

Experiment - exercising to see the result. We planned Europa not as an experiment in this sense but as a work of art. Yet The Eye and the Ear was done as a consciously designed experiment. Not every avant-garde dealt with experiments and not every experiment equalled avant-garde. — Stefan Themerson

Ii would no longer waste time on regret. I would turn my face to the future and carve it into the shape I wanted. - Panchali — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I mean, how do we know it works? Right now it's just a drawing - you can't take fear away from a piece of paper, it doesn't have any to begin with. — Cassandra Clare

I mean, there Persephone was, minding her own business, picking flowers, when all of a sudden Hades bursts out of the ground in a flaming chariot and grabs her. I mean, you can't just go around grabbing people. That's not okay." I narrow my eyes, challenging him. "What kind of person does that?"
Haden glowers right back at me. "Maybe he didn't see any other options at the moment. — Bree Despain

Hot tip: If you're a human having a fling with a werewolf, break it off. Now. — Glen Duncan

I prefer watching movies on the sofa rather than sitting next to Bob Geldof at a premiere and wanting to kill yourself. — Keeley Hawes

This here is your inheritance, says the senior partner. Yes, he says, Ludwig, I know, and stows the plan for the bathing house (5.5m long, 3.8m wide, outer wall construction: wood, roof construction: thatch), stows both the plan and the mosquito in his briefcase. On a German shelf, this mosquito, pressed flat between large quantities of paper, will outlast time and times, and one day it might even be petrified, who knows. — Jenny Erpenbeck