Gardiners Quotes & Sayings

She was the smallest of the litter, the prettiest, the most gentle and trusting. — George R R Martin

A pleasant morning. Saw my classmates Gardner, and Wheeler. Wheeler dined, spent the afternoon, and drank Tea with me. Supped at Major Gardiners, and engag'd to keep School at Bristol, provided Worcester People, at their ensuing March meeting, should change this into a moving School, not otherwise. Major Greene this Evening fell into some conversation with me about the Divinity and Satisfaction of Jesus Christ. All the Argument he advanced was, 'that a mere creature, or finite Being, could not make Satisfaction to infinite justice, for any Crimes,' and that 'these things are very mysterious.'
(Thus mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.)
[Diary entry, February 13 1756] — John Adams

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I try to exercise regularly every day, if I can. It renews you and it gives you more balance in your life. This is a key leverage point. — Stephen Covey

Miss Darcy shot a quick glance to where her brother shared a conversation with the Gardiners. Elizabeth — Regina Jeffers

There are two things necessary to Salvation ... Money and gunpowder. — George Bernard Shaw

But often, in the world's most crowded streets,
But often, in the din of strife,
There rises an unspeakable desire
After the knowledge of our buried life;
A thirst to spend our fire and restless force
In tracking out our true, original course;
A longing to inquire
Into the mystery of this heart which beats
So wild, so deep in us - to know
Whence our lives come and where they go. — Matthew Arnold

No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes ... — David Hockney

All Catholics must make themselves felt as active elements in daily political life in the countries where they live. They must penetrate, wherever possible, in the administration of civil affairs; must constantly exert the utmost vigilance and energy to prevent the usages of liberty from going beyond the limits fixed by God's law. All Catholics should do all in their power to cause the constitutions of states and legislation to be modeled on the principles of the true Church. — Pope Leo XIII

Look, girls don't care how many push-ups you can do. They just want to get high and wear flowers in their hair. Maybe steal a car. — Donald Ray Pollock

s eye view of what has been promiscuously said, thought, fancied, and sung of Leviathan, by many nations and generations, including our own. — Herman Melville

Wealth that comes quickly, goeth the same way. — George S. Clason

He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn't change on him. — Maggie Stiefvater

All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it ... — Per Petterson