Jan Markell Quotes & Sayings

Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do. — Becca Fitzpatrick

There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am apt to think that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received would be welcome wherever he came. — Oliver Goldsmith

I am called to live in such a perfect relationship with God that my life produces a yearning for God in the lives of others, not admiration for myself. Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God. God's purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants. — Oswald Chambers

What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to them. — Nancy Kress

There is a glass girl in my bed. If I ask too many questions she will shatter. — Chris Killen

Take a firm grasp on God's sovereignty and trust His love even when you don't understand His purpose. — Joyce Meyer

I hear what many of you are saying: We don't have the time, we are busy. Well Nobody Has Time, Everyone Is Busy. In the time it took you to read this post, your life just got a minute shorter. That is precisely why we read (and why some of us write): because life is short and finite, we want more, and literature is the distillation of all those lives we will not lead. — Jessica Zafra

The gods are capricious, and I was about to amuse them. And Alfred was right. I was a fool. — Bernard Cornwell

Oswald is an interesting character. Disney lost the rights to him in 1928 to Universal, who was distributing the cartoons and basically handed him over to Walter Lantz. — Warren Spector

When they want to do a thing, in business of course, they must wait till there arises in their brains, somehow, a religious, or ethical, or scientific, or philosophic, concept that the thing is right. And then they go ahead and do it, unwitting that one of the weaknesses of the human mind is that the wish is parent to the thought. — Jack London

It's very clear, under anyone's scenario, that it's a massive, extensive undertaking regardless of where you might ultimately draw the line as to when the nuisance is abated. — Jack McConnell