John Rickard Quotes & Sayings

An empowered person will recognize that they have agreed to the reality presented. — Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble

Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one. — Mae West

He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only. — C.S. Lewis

How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such a wilderness; and yet the change in us was irreversible, and neither of us would even search for a way back. It was impossible. The fire was out. Only a few live coals lurked in the ashes, searing unexpectedly at the incautious touch. — Dick Francis

Who would wave a flag to be rescued if they had a desert island of their own? That was the thing that spoilt Robinson Crusoe. In the end he came home. There never ought to be an end. — Arthur Ransome

The mind of youth eagerly catches at promised pleasure: pure and innocent by nature, it thinks not of the dangers lurking beneath those pleasures, till too late to avoid them. — Susanna Rowson

We are nothing but the oath we give. — Conn Iggulden

The saints were people like all of us. Many of them came out of great sins, but by repentance they attained the Kingdom of Heaven. And everyone who comes there comes through repentance, which the merciful Lord has given us through His sufferings. — Silouan The Athonite

If you share an office next to a guy for twenty years, and you like him and you're friends with him, it's hard to tell him that you think that his whole idea of how the universe works is completely wrong. — Antony Garrett Lisi

I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self. — Alison Goodman

The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love." from "Memoriam — Anne Michaels

I was chubby and awkward, and the only way I could really meet girls was to join children's theater, so that's what I did. — Craig Brewer

People who sell bolts and nuts and locomotives and frozen orange juice make billions, while the people who struggle to bring a little beauty into the world, give life a little meaning, they starve.
$10,000 A Year, Easy — Kurt Vonnegut

they don't know how properly to cook Florida lobsters. Simple. Rinse out the lymph first, then poach and broil. I even poach fish before cooking. Makes it firmer. — Bruce Van Sant