Kate Macdowell Quotes & Sayings

For I can think of no fate drearier than sitting at home ... for the rest of my life, watching all of you go off one by one. — Melanie Benjamin

The person who is living by grace sees this vast contrast between his own sins against God and the offenses of others against him. He forgives others because he himself has been so graciously forgiven. He realizes that, by receiving God's forgiveness through Christ, he has forfeited the right to be offended when others hurt him. — Jerry Bridges

If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list. — Hannah Whitall Smith

I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly. — Suzy Bogguss

I see a global ancient religion which was marked with its rebellious spirit against the higher authorities. It expressed itself temporally (Solar/Lunar), physically (Skulls/Tridents) and linguistically (Sun/Son/Sn) across the whole world. — Ibrahim Ibrahim

I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that. — Parminder Nagra

It's crazy to think North West can already read better than Kendall Jenner. — Kendall Jenner

Faith is not about how much you believe in what you believe. Faith is about believing that the One you believe in is believable. — Tony Evans

The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable. — Albert Camus

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community. — Hal Sparks

You couldn't escape the pointy hat, though. There was nothing magical about a pointy hat except that it said that the woman underneath it was a witch. People paid attention to a pointy hat. — Terry Pratchett

For [people] are good18 in one way, but in all kinds of ways bad — Aristotle.

Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and the linguistic veil itself, Killarney Clary's new book-her best to date-dwells, plumbs, persuades and thrills. — Jorie Graham

Jean Louise had lost touch with nearly everyone she grew up with and did not wish particularly to rediscover the companions of her adolescence. Her schooldays were her most miserable days, she was unsentimental to the point of callousness about the women's college she had attended, nothing displeased her more than to be set in the middle of a group of people who played Remember Old So-and-So. — Harper Lee

Mother was,' June thought, 'a beautiful little ornament that was damaged.' Her broken edges cut her daughters in ways both emotional and physical, and only sharpened with age. — Karen Abbott