Helpmeet Book Quotes & Sayings

Moreover, because the slothful mind is typically brought to its downfall gradually, when we fail to control our speech, we move on to more harsh words. Thus, at first, we are happy to speak of others kindly; afterwards, we begin to pick at the lives of those of whom we speak, and finally our tongues break into open slander against them. — Gregory The Great

Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death. — Ram Dass

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation. — Samuel Hopkins

The point of this language of "intention" and "personal responsibility" is broad exoneration. Mistakes were made. Bodies were broken. People were enslaved. We meant well. We tried our best. "Good intention" is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

I believe everything has a solution. — Lisa Vidal

[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions. — P.G. Wodehouse

I feel like if you turn on country radio, you will find something you'll love because it's so diverse.And that's a great thing. — Miranda Lambert

Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture. — Ken Auletta

Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating. — Frank Abagnale

You didn't see what just happened. I did. Saw it, felt it, tasted it." His hand gripped and squeezed her thigh as if determining its strength. "You came so hard you nearly crushed my skull between your legs. If I wasn't so hardheaded, I'd be dead. — Shay Rucker

If you turn it over to the universe, you will be surprised and dazzled by what is delivered to you. This is where magic and miracles happen. — Joe Vitale

Maybe it's impossible to spend time with Patrick Stewart and not have the conversation move to the extraterrestrial. — Stephen Rodrick

They wanted to preserve and protect the mystical knowledge gained from their meditation practices and pass it on to future civilizations they clairvoyantly saw were going to be born after the destruction of Atlantis — Frederick Lenz