Leilani Dowding Quotes & Sayings

Our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards . . . helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next. - Albert Bandura20 — Philip G. Zimbardo

We're in His hands." Abby muttered the words she and Phil had said before they left for Iceland. "May God protect us all. He always does." Her breath caught, and she turned to face the horizon with a brimming heart. "He always has. — C.R. Hedgcock

I have noticed that many who do not believe in God believe in everything else, even in the evil eye. — Jules Verne

I think there are people, and I do not mean this to be disparaging, there are people like Jay Mohr and Jeremy Piven where they just give you that vibe, 'This guy's going to play someone a little venal.' — Rob Thomas

If we look around, then, at the crucial problem areas of our society - the areas of crisis and failure - we find in each and every case a "red thread" marking and uniting them all: the thread of government. In every one of these cases, government either has totally run or heavily influenced the activity. — Murray Rothbard

In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life. — Lucretius

Being in on the secret might be a lot of fun when you're a kid, but not so much once you realize how often life hinges on everyone agreeing
at least outwardly
on the same reality. — Rosemary Clement-Moore

[Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible clash between small producers, farmers, and small business people on the one hand, and wicked oligarchs and financiers and monopolists on the other. — Jeffrey Rosen

I think that we all drown, in one way or another. — Moira Fowley-Doyle

For me my big dream that I would like to achieve is for each book to be better than the books that came before, to continue to improve and to become better as a writer and hopefully to have a long career . — Cassandra Clare

If a man insisted on always being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. — Herodotus

When did I stop being me? — Sara Gruen

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible. — Bhumibol Adulyadej

Why couldn't life be like storybooks? Jethro sighed, hugging me hard. — Pepper Winters