Hallings Quotes & Sayings

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. — William J.H. Boetcker

What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. — John James Audubon

Stories are really important to people and can really change the way they understand, and even live, their lives. As such, I don't agree much with people who say, 'Calm down, it's just a story.' — Tim Pratt

It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different. — Cassandra Clare

The truth is that the life-purpose of Jesus discovered by modern liberalism is not the life purpose of the real Jesus, but merely represents those elements in the teaching of Jesus
isolated and misinterpreted
which happen to agree with the modern program. It is not Jesus, then, who is the real authority, but the modern principle by which the selection within Jesus' recorded teaching has been made. Certain isolated ethical principles of the Sermon on the Mount are accepted, not at all because they are teachings of Jesus, but because they agree with modern ideas. — J. Gresham Machen

Maybe that was the answer to good parenting - pretending the first child was the second. — Emma Straub

No, Mom. I said fine."
"It's just your tone."
Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor. — Deb Caletti