Hagues Peak Quotes & Sayings

Rituals are important. I get up. I take the dogs on a walk around to the front and then I pick up the papers. Then I walk around to the front door, then me and the two dogs come in the house and I give them treats. I make coffee. It's the regularity of these kinds of rituals that I find deeply satisfying. — Jane Fonda

There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold. — Oprah Winfrey

Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we cannot put them asunder. — C.V. Wedgwood

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh. — Francis Of Assisi

As we have pointed out, the principle of the tree of knowledge is to be independent of God. It means that we make our decisions independently. Although Cain performed a good deed, it was independent of God. Everything that is good yet independent of God results in death. This is similar to insulation which severs the flow of electricity. Regardless of the substance that is used as insulation - it may even be diamond - electricity is cut off nonetheless. As long as it causes insulation, it does not matter whether the material is good or bad. Likewise, if a thing keeps us away from God, it brings death, regardless of how good it is. — Witness Lee

Even the poor should give something to charity. — Nachman Of Breslov

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. — Liberty Hyde Bailey

The removal of God from human consciousness means the removal of meaning and purpose from human life. — Fazlur Rahman

Some people thought I was using my popularity as a singer to sell my first novel. For others, it was almost a sacrilege: a practitioner of a minor art daring to enter the field of high art. — Chico Buarque

Everybody has seen what happens when an ordinary person takes on a title or an office. When a new president is inaugurated, he takes on the awe and respect of his office and begins to act like a president. Ordinary men (and I would certainly hope, one day, ordinary women)...lose their old roles and become the president. — Kaleel Jamison

Your love is the dominant color of my thoughts. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

No means no. I don't care when you say it, Lily. Once it's out there, it's out there. Any halfway decent guy would have backed off. — Krista Ritchie