Joynson Holland Quotes & Sayings

Your pain doesn't define you. Your failures don't define you. Your createdness defines you. Christ in his goodness defines you". — Shauna Niequist

In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Shakespeare was not a scholar in the sense we regard the term to-day, yet no man ever lived or probably ever will live that equalled or will equal him in the expression of thought. He simply read the book of nature and interpreted it from the standpoint of his own magnificent genius. — Joseph Devlin

Money is a means to wealth, not the wealth itself. — Akala

How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else? — Madeline Claire Franklin

she could not bear to let someone else perform a task when she could do it better herself. — Julia Quinn

I need but say that my most vivid impression in that respect was a mere trifle: one day, on Million Street in St. Petersburg, a truck packed with jolly rioters made a clumsy but accurate swerve so as to deliberately squash a passing cat which remained lying there, as a perfectly flat, neatly ironed, black rag (only the tail still belonged to a cat
it stood upright, and the tip, I think, still moved). At the time this struck me with some deep occult meaning, but I have since have occasion to see a bus, in a bucolic Spanish village, flatten by exactly the same method an exactly similar cat, so I have become disenchanted with hidden meanings. — Vladimir Nabokov

Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true — Patrick Ness

Harboring envy is saying to God that how He fashioned you in not good enough. Let it go. Embrace who you were created to be. — Ashley N. Sauls