Lanzadas Quotes & Sayings

A full mind is an empty bat. — Branch Rickey

Increase your joy by doing the good you wish to have done to you. — Daisaku Ikeda

Testing time is the time for an increase in praise. — Sunday Adelaja

I want to promise you / permanence, my constant orbit, but even continents / are revisions. I am only your diving bell in water / hemmed by shifting plates. — Robin Beth Schaer

People talk about beautiful relationships between two persons of the same sex. What is the best of that sort as compared with the friendship of man and wife where the best impulses and highest ideals of both are the same? There is no place for comparison between the two friendships; the one is earthly, the other divine. — Mark Twain

A woman, like a cross-eyed man, looks one way, but goes another
hence her mysteriousness. — Austin O'Malley

The literary man re-reads, other men simply read. — C.S. Lewis

I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians. — Patton Oswalt

We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends. — Vaclav Klaus

At some point you need to stop looking out at others and start looking inward, at yourself, at your own accomplishments, at your own foibles, at your own successes and your own failures. It's only when you begin to look inward that you can begin to have an effect on those out there, the ones with the greedy eyes and outstretched hands. — Scott F. Falkner

I've had one or two personal trainers at different times - and it's expensive, first of all - but they always make me feel uncomfortable because they're jocks who just yell at you. — John Gemberling

I tried to walk a mile in a man's shoes once. I ended up running most of the way!! Seems he wanted them back.. — Neil Leckman

Ten years ago, you wrote a book and you never expected to find out anything about the author. Now with social media, everyone wants that connection. I think our readers want to be invited into our lives and brought on the journey and be part of this whole process. — Jane Green

Drifting away from faith tends to start with the small things, the unintentional things, the seemingly insignificant moments of discontentment. — Kasey Van Norman

As a pastor, you get invited into the most poignant moments of people's lives. Whether it's a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit, you get invited into the center of the event, whether or not you know the people. — Rob Bell