Hymnbook 1955 Quotes & Sayings

If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action. — Douglas Adams

They may use my body but my mind is free. In my mind I escape. — Gladys Lawson

What would Christ do if he were in my situation? — Chieko N. Okazaki

Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith. — Elisabeth Elliot

A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him. — Sophocles

Grace studied her hands as they moved across the meat. They looked much like any others the same age - veined, lined, the backs stained with tea-coloured spots. But they'd felt their way through the past seventy years in unique ways. Much of their work had been to the benefit of others, some not. She'd known them as still, listening hands, but also as hands that moved with urgency and madness. For a while they'd been careful nurse's hands. Then hands that cradled three babies and clapped, tickled and taught in turn. She'd bruised, burnt and cut them; some scars suggested badly. They'd dismissed, beckoned, pleaded over the years, and not always successfully. Their goodbyes were too many to recall. — Sally Piper

When faced with pain and evil, we have to make a choice.
We can choose to be taken by the evil.
Or we can try to embrace the good. — Elizabeth Smart

I'm sad but excited for the future. — Warren Spector

People can commend the weather without envy. — William Shenstone

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization. — George Bernard Shaw

You know how much I want a Vespa. I'm Vespa Desperate. It's a medical syndrome, you know. I see Vespas and I want to chase them down the street like a rabid terrier. — Elle Casey

Strange, that however tough one's skin becomes in later life, the wounds of youth never close. Shenkt — Joe Abercrombie

Best team player? As good as Lebron James is, I have to go with Messi. What he's doing, he's on pace to becoming the best ever. — Luol Deng