Lansom Jumble Quotes & Sayings

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. — Lois McMaster Bujold

The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly. — Len Morgan

Love is not a feeling; it's giving someone what he or she needs most when it is least deserved. That's how God loved me, and I choose to stick with the program. — Chip Ingram

Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man ... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God! — Victor Hugo

More often than not, the foolishness of our humanity drives us to destroy the very things that we need to keep ourselves from destroying ourselves. And because that's the case, God will never allow us to destroy Christmas. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language. — Jonathan Ames

Our way to practice is one step at a time, on breath at a time. — Shunryu Suzuki

I would say that introverts make some of the best international philosophers. The less common attribute of the introverted lifestyle - a close societal connection, as such a connection disappears or changes in relevance as the currents of the winds change - leaves too much room for one's own cultural bias. Instead, introverts tend to turn inward, the laboratory of being and all its forms. This is the most accurate study of the individual human being, which is in turn, rather than those affected by cultural limitations, the most universal reflection of human understanding and human behavior. — Criss Jami

The brain likes to be efficient and so even as its strengthening the pathways you're exercising, it's pulling - it's weakening the connections in other ways between the cells that supported old ways of thinking or working or behaving, or whatever that you're not exercising so much. — Nicholas G. Carr

Frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God's grace. — Joyce Meyer

But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party. — Robert Bly

I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood. — Kathleen Turner

The younger man stepped away from the table and came toward me, his whole posture radiating menace. Every Darre woman is taught to deal with such behavior from men. It is an animal trick that they use, like dogs ruffling their fur and growling. Only rarely is there an actual threat behind it, and a woman's strength lies in discerning when the threat is real and when it is just hair and noise. — N.K. Jemisin

Grown ups never understood anything by themselves. And it is rather tedious to have to explain things to them time and again — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

You can't see any movie nowadays really without it having some sort of CGI treatment, albeit whether it's a creature or an environment, something like that. To make a point, sort of poetically in that case, but clearly it was a drama and how do you approach it? Well, I think what you're supposed to do is what the text dictates. What you bring to it and everything you need to know should be there, and pay attention to your director. — Brendan Fraser