Laymen Ministries Quotes & Sayings

I was shocked when I moved to Sydney how very few indigenous people I came across. And so when I go to places like Maroubra or Redfern or Waterloo or Erskineville, I feel more at home because of the people I'm around - anywhere I can see a face that reflects someone that looks like my family, I feel much more at home. — Shari Sebbens

It was a strange four-sided triangle, with Charlotte (in some sense) the 'other woman' in two different relationships with the same man. — Howard D. Beebe

I will always look for things that are different from the last thing I played. — Tim Daly

If you are blaming the oppressed rather than the oppressor you know that something is wrong. — Adam Snowflake

I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets? — Brenda Blethyn

How you do money is how you do life. — Orna Ross

And two more tiresome examples of blameless lives lived well I have rarely had the misfortune to examine. — Andrea K. Host

If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast? -Beauty & the Beast — Walt Disney Company

Real comedy can't be learned; it comes from a need for justice. The best who stand up, stand up for something. — Elayne Boosler

Fun fact #1 about pomegranates: Pomegranates are awesome.
Fun fact #2: Pomegranates are like little explosions of awesome in your mouth.
Fun fact #3: A lot of people think you're not supposed to eat the seeds of a pomegranate - but that's not true, people who tell you that are liars, and they don't know anything about life, and they should never be trusted. — Tahereh Mafi

The good life for man is the life spent in seeking for the good life for man, and the virtues necessary for the seeking are those which will enable us to understand what more and what else the good life for man is. — Alasdair MacIntyre

But the heart has a mind of its own and it always gets what it wants, especially when it's dying. — J.A. Redmerski

Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God — Francis Bacon

The problem of teaching, therefore, is getting not the facts but the context from my brain to yours. — Jose Antonio Bowen