Houstonian Magazine Quotes & Sayings

A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve. — Edna Ferber

Careful practical work is the best expression of our freedom and safeguard of our sanity. In a healthy society, such work is the means most consistently available for people to practice holiness of life, to imitate God's enabling and sustaining care for the world. — Ellen F. Davis

Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty. — Horace

There is no such thing as a bottomless pit. If it were bottomless, it would not be a pit. The only thing that comes close to being a bottomless pit is the intrinsic depravity of mankind. — Ron Brackin

Music is the human treatment of sounds. — Jean Michel Jarre

Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as absolute a demarcation as a full stop. — Victor Klemperer

You of all have the most to forgive." "Ah, and if so," he responded, "I have the most blessing to receive after I've done so. — Janette Oke

Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam's fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans. — John Ortberg Jr.

He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason. — Samuel Johnson

In other matters no sensible person will behave so irresponsibly or rest content with such feeble grounds for his opinions and for the line he takes. It is only in the highest and most sacred things that he allows himself to do so. — Sigmund Freud

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration. — Albert Einstein