Leatherberry Oaks Quotes & Sayings

He laughed, but in the way people do who want to prove they get the joke. The Dutch do this a lot. They appear to live in terror of being mistaken for Germans, and to compensate by finding a funny side to life where none exists. Tell a Dutchman that your dog just died, and he will pretend that you have just made some impossibly witty remark. — Michael Lewis

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Progressives' don't just redefine (and valorize) deviancy; they insist on renaming it, too. — Kathy Shaidle

People complain because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses because I have finally learned not to pick them the next time around. — Shannon L. Alder

I will tell you the secret: God has had all that there was of me. There have been men with greater brains than I, even with greater opportunities, but from the day I got the poor of London on my heart and caught a vision of what Jesus Christ could do with me and them, on that day I made up my mind that God should have all of William Booth there was. And if there is anything of power in the Salvation Army, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life. — William Booth

Was there any basis for preferring any one sufficient hypothesis over another? When you simply did not understand a thing: No! And Jubal readily admitted to himself that a long lifetime had left him completely and totally not understanding the basic problems of the Universe. — Robert A. Heinlein

... at four o'clock in the morning, when the world is full of magic, things may be safely said that may not be uttered at any other time, so long as the person who listens believes in the same kind of magic as the person who speaks. — Robin McKinley

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When we tend to the areas of life that are important to us, when we make those things a priority, that's when we will flourish in those areas. — Victoria Osteen

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out. — Alva Noto