Gndrm Quotes & Sayings

It's seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. — David Hume

Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life. — Joanne Harris

He could pick my heart like a rose and watch it wither in his hand. Sometimes I think he is like that. At other times I think he is as simple and golden and generous as our father's fields. And then I see things in his eyes - things that I have never looked at, and I know that I have walked a short and easy road out of my past, while he has walked a thousand roads to meet me. I know Perrin's past; the same road runs into his future. I don't know Corbet. — Patricia A. McKillip

We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage. — Michio Kaku

Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can. — Michael A. Singer

You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience. — Bronson Pinchot

Let us be so taken up with the knowledge of God's goodness and the desire to fellowship with Him that our emotions are warmed and our outer man reflects great love. Although we must not seek emotional experiences for their own sake, we must not shun them merely because others misuse them or ignore God's instructions on worship. — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Lilly: Mia, when I recognize a human soul crying out for self-actualization, I am powerless to stop myself. I must do what I can to see that that person's dream is realized.
[Gee, I haven't noticed Lilly doing all that much to help me realize my dream of
French-kissing her brother. But on the other hand, I have not exactly made that dream known to her.] — Meg Cabot

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary — Frances Hodgson Burnett

We are not saying that final salvation is unconditional. It is not. We must meet the condition of faith, for example, in Christ in order to inherit eternal life. But faith is not a condition for election. Just the reverse. Election is a condition for faith. It is because God chose us before the foundation of the world that he purchases our redemption at the cross, and then gives us spiritual life through irresistible grace, and brings us to faith. — Christian Focus Publications

Putting even one thing in your shopping basket that's locally produced or organic makes all the difference. It's a vote for the future, for animal welfare, for the environment, for your children's children. — Sheherazade Goldsmith

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities. — Voltaire

people were like icebergs--most of what really went on, especially the ugliness, was submerged — Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer. And perhaps with better cause, for while a buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in two or three years, a range pulled down by too many deer may fail for replacement in as many decades — Aldo Leopond

In economic theory the conclusions are sometimes less interesting than the route by which they are reached. — Piero Sraffa