Lecturn Quotes & Sayings

A small brazier glowed near the monk's left hand. On a lecturn before him lay pots of paints, brushes, a quill, a pen, a knife, a sizeable handbell, the tooth of some animal
and a piece of parchment.
It was the parchment that commanded the room. Until he saw it Len didn't realize how starved he had been of colour. Villagers dressed in various shades of brown and beige, like their furniture and fields and now, here, was an irruption of the rainbow, as if a charm of goldfinches had landed on the manuscript and been transfixed. — Diana Norman

The most reliable and proper feeling is often a gentle sense that does not compel. It is like a voice but not a voice; it is a sense that prompts but does not compel. This most precious sense is the operating and anointing of the Holy Spirit within our spirit. — Witness Lee

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor. — Casey Kasem

Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility. — Taraji P. Henson

Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations. — Don Meyer

As long as a certain problem primarily affects a different country, in this case Italy, one might not put it at the very top of one's list of priorities. — Paolo Gentiloni

kill to live, live to kill. Immortality and freedom from these chains, but oh, what a loss . . . — Richelle Mead

Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul;
Reason's comparing balance rules the whole.
Man, but for that no action could attend,
And, but for this, were active to no end:
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot;
Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void,
Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. — Alexander Pope

Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him. — Meister Eckhart

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country. — Alexandra Paul

Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform. — Marco Rubio

All has gone to rest, and I don't know whether I'm alive or will live or whether I'm rushing like this through the world for I'm not longer weeping or laughing — Taras Shevchenko