Laybourne Venice Quotes & Sayings

Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature; it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from principles of new life itself. — William Gurnall

If a hungry dog looks for food, he does not look in the doghouse. — Salman Rushdie

When I got old enough to date, I realized that Valentine's Day is just a commercial marketing scam to make men feel bad. So I let my boyfriends off the hook. — Evangeline Lilly

Moses preferred to go nowhere with God than anywhere without him. — Max Lucado

I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision. — Eduard Shevardnadze

I don't have anything against organized religions, except when they engender hatred for other religions. A lot of that we see today, where the Muslims are against the Christians and the Christians are against Jews and the Jews are against Arabs - I mean, it just it goes on and on and on. — Al Jaffee

The trial seemed to be made for television. It involved an attractive lady wrestler, a wealthy Texas rancher and her architect husband, a bomb, and a murder plot. — Jacob Bembry

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling. — Philip Emeagwali

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many. — Patricia Ireland

When two tigers fight, one is injured beyond repair - and the other one is dead. — Marc Cameron

Facing facts is always empowering. — Eckhart Tolle

Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind. — Henri Matisse

You do realize Kingsley is forty-five, yes?" "I told them," Nora said. "Age is only a number," Angie said. "So is sixty-nine," Maxine said. — Tiffany Reisz