Jaylan Butler Quotes & Sayings

It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being ... Almighty God would mercifully interpose and still the rage of war among the nations ... He would take this province under His protection, confound the designs and defeat the attempts of its enemies, and unite our hearts and strengthen our hands in every undertaking that may be for the public good, and for our defense and security in this time of danger. — Benjamin Franklin

Charlotte had never forgotten it - she was always looking for it. An old house facing seaward, ships going up and down. Spruce woods and musty hills, cold salt air from the water, rest, quiet, silence. — L.M. Montgomery

I used to listen to the monks repeating the Lord's Prayer; I wondered how they could continue to pray without misgiving to their heavenly father to give them their daily bread. Do children beseech their earthly father to give them sustenance? They expect him to do it, they neither feel gratitude to him for doing so nor need to, and we have only blame for a man who brings children into the world that he can't or won't provide for. It seemed to me that if an omnipotent creator was not prepared to provide for his creatures with the necessities, material and spiritual, of existence he'd have done better not to create them. — W. Somerset Maugham

My coach has said to me, "When you win a match or a tournament, you don't even think about it - the very next minute you're like". — Serena Williams

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive. — Anne Hathaway

Do the day and let the day do you. — Stephen King

There is hardly a foot of soil in all this region that has not been enriched by the blood of men, patriots or invaders. — Bram Stoker

You have to bring awareness to the society — Sunday Adelaja

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on. — Richard Ford