Hattaway Etagere Quotes & Sayings

Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back into oneself and listen to the voice of one's conscience in the silence of the passions? There you have true philosophy. Let us learn to be satisfied with that, and without envying the glory of those famous men who are immortalized in the republic of letters, let us try to set between them and us that glorious distinction which people made long ago between two great peoples: one knew how to speak well; the other how to act well. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If experience teaches anything, it is that what the community undertakes to do is usually done badly. This is due in part to the temptation to corruption that such enterprises involve, but even more, perhaps, to the lack of personal interest on the part of those engaged in them. — Suzanne La Follette

Sophie Hodorowicz Knab, Polish Customs, Traditions, and Folklore (New York: Hippocrene Books, 1996), p. 259. people — Diane Ackerman

She laughed, and he fell in love. — Richelle E. Goodrich

No one can be saved, and attain eternal joy, without all of the following: (1) a morally honest acceptance of the demands of virtue, (2) a serious effort to practice it, (3) an intellectually honest confession of failure, (4) repentance, and (5) at least an implicit faith and hope in God as Savior. — Peter Kreeft

The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence. — A.W. Tozer

Elinor looked at him with greater astonishment than ever. She began to think that he must be in liquor... — Jane Austen

Get it out of your historic head. — Imogen Cunningham

A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits. — Paul Theroux

Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that. — J.J. Abrams

Patients know what patients want to know. — Dave DeBronkart

That is who I was yesterday. Today I walk with God. — Shannon L. Alder

Clive thought of his work in totality, of how varied and rich it seemed whenever he was able to raise his head and take the long perspective, how it represented in abstract a whole history of his lifetime. And still so much to do. — Ian McEwan