Garbett Construction Quotes & Sayings

I am persuaded our discontents, and murmurings with out unpleasing condition, and our covetous desires after more, are not so provoking to God, nor so destructive to the sinner, as our too sweet enjoying, and rest of spirit in a pleasing state ... Our rest is our heaven, and where we take our rest, there we make our heaven(457). — Richard Baxter

Remove yourself from temptation. Don't even look at something if you know you shouldn't have it. — Lucy Diamond

Er smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it. — Henry James

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin. — Alphonse Karr

Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea. — Cassandra Clare

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible. — Nelson Algren

Horror stories have always worked on film. It's where they work. That's where vampires and ghosts and UFOs are real. They're not particularly real in life, but they're real on the screen. It's the communal aspect of movie-watching. — John Carpenter

If you can read, write and think, you have liberated yourself from any darkness into the wonderful light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In our humanness we can't handle all His holiness; so God, in mercy, raises the veil and dwells in mystery. — James MacDonald

Shrug. "Everyone knows the Devil's an American. — Michael Poore

He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory. — Norton Juster

Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who have been taught to consider the institutions of the schools as giving the last perfection to human abilities are surprised to see men wrinkled with study, yet wanting to be instructed in the minute circumstances of propriety, or the necessary form of daily transaction; and quickly shake off their reverence for modes of education which they find to produce no ability above the rest of mankind. — Samuel Johnson

What you believe, that is your truth, that you will attract and, for sure, that will manifest in your life. — Debasish Mridha

When I was younger I loved Betty Blue, and at the moment I'm completely besotted with Angelina Jolie. But sometimes I'm unnerved by the idea of men liking her. Because I think that there is a side to every man that really wants to watch a woman fall apart. — Emma Forrest