Langstone Harbour Quotes & Sayings

I stopped avoiding the articles and the scientific studies and read everything I could find. I also stopped outsourcing the problem to the environmentalists, stopped telling myself this was somebody else's issue, somebody else's job. — Naomi Klein

If pride, that plague of human nature, that source of so much misery, did not hinder it; for this vice does not measure happiness so much by its own conveniences, as by the misery of others; and would not be satisfied with being thought a goddess, if none were left that were miserable, over whom she might insult. Pride thinks its own happiness shines the brighter, by comparing it with the misfortunes of other persons; that by displaying its own wealth they may feel their poverty the more sensibly. — Thomas More

We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. — John Piper

History is what we read, write and think about the past. — Michael Howard

Poems are surmountable. They have rhymes and rhythms to help you make meaning. They're short enough. . . to read and reread until you've made some sense of them. Short stories are a different ballgame. You read them and understand the words completely. You know what happens in each sentence. You follow the dialogue and action. at the end, you know exactly what's happened. And also you have no idea. — Laurie Frankel

If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow. — Howard G. Hendricks

Okay, now what to do if I don't like this person like him or her??
SAy a lie?
- Is it okay?
(So far theoretical truth, comes from the lies, the lies are the beginning...)
Say a truth?
- So far it hurts,... — Deyth Banger

May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful. — Mary Oliver

Most often the person you would die for would settle for dinner and a movie. — Robert Breault

Well, I'm somebody who is just living ... living life, and if I get frustrated by something, then I like to try to put it right. — Richard Branson

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids! — Arianna Huffington

Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board. — Bernadette Peters