Lanzarotta West Quotes & Sayings

God holds the saints responsible for emotions they do not have and ought to have, as well as for the emotions they have allowed that they ought not to have allowed. — Oswald Chambers

They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called "work" in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking "outside the box"; and when they die they are put in a box. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies. — Jonathan Swift

Foreigners are sending messages to the planets. We are sending rice and cereals to our dead fore-father through the Brahmins. It is a wise deed? — Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

When we choose to honor someone - simply because they're made in the image of God - walls fall down, hearts are changed, circumstances are redeemed, people are healed, and God is honored. — Kerry Clarensau

There's plenty of people who can sing OK that make terrific records, and I love them from afar. But when I make a record, I need great voices. That's always my mandate. — David Foster

So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end. — Irene Dunne

I was just always the girl that people would come and talk to about their problems, and I still am. — Jennifer Aniston

I played football, honestly, to get a scholarship. — Isaiah Mustafa

I don't fire up the prose. I just tell it straight and don't fool around with it. — Raymond Carver

If it is easy, something's wrong. — Rajashree Choudhury

Too often, parents today allow their desire to please their child to govern their parenting. If your relationship with your child is governed by your own desire to be loved by him or her, the odds are good that you will not achieve even that objective. — Leonard Sax

You do look a little pale," the army woman said. "I thought maybe it was air sickness."
"Pure hunger"
She gave him a professional smile. "I'll see what I can rustle up."
Russel? the gunslinger thought dazedly. In his own world 'to russel' was a slang verb meaning to take a woman by force. Never mind, food would come. — Stephen King

As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing. — Elfriede Jelinek