Fortress Like Homes Quotes & Sayings

People think that God wants our offerings. God does not need anything from us. He is the giver. He is like the sun - the giver of light. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore. — Nathan Wolfe

Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental defect of their own, will judge the most correct and certain language of others to be indefinite and ambiguous. — Oliver Ellsworth

The people of Cody like you to think that Buffalo Bill was a native son. In fact, I'm awfully proud to tell you, he was an Iowa native, born in the little town of Le Claire in 1846. The people of Cody, in one of the more desperate commercial acts of this century, bought Buffalo Bill's birthplace and re-erected it in their town, but they are lying through their teeth when they hint that he was a local. And the thing is, they have a talented native son of their own. Jackson Pollock, the artist, was born in Cody. But they don't make anything of that because, I suppose, Pollock was a complete wanker when it came to shooting buffalo. — Bill Bryson

Men feel challenged when a woman is in danger, so those types of stories interest women and they interest men on a level that the crimes against men tend to draw a different visceral reaction. Again, not saying it's right, but they tend to draw a different visceral reaction, which is that the man was out in the world doing men stuff and something happened to him. — Bill James

He felt as he always did when he finished a book - queerly empty, let down, aware that for each little success he had paid a toll of absurdity. — Stephen King

Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Whatever you want to achieve is secondary: the business, the exchange of information, whatever it may be. Yes, you do that also, but there is a deeper foundation - meeting that human being in a state of shared presence. — Eckhart Tolle

It's just too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism. — Ronald Reagan

They were young and loud and triumphant, and the Kings of Henrietta. — Maggie Stiefvater

Isaiah 9:10: "The bricks have fallen, But we will rebuild with hewn stone; The sycamores have been cut down, But we will plant cedars in their place.1 "Now, Isaiah 9:11: "Therefore the LORD shall set up The adversaries of Rezin against him, And spur his enemies on. — Jonathan Cahn

A slice of chocolate cake - priorities! - a scoop of chicken potpie, slice of chocolate cake, scoop of yam casserole, slice of chocolate cake, two scoops of mashed potatoes, a slice of chocolate cake, a scoop of buttery green beens, a slice of chocolate cake - — Gena Showalter

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised. — Isaac D'Israeli

Little Richard walked a few paces back, armed with a flintlock pistol, which he hoped would be effective against spiders. — Dave Barry