Lerian Quotes & Sayings

As we say in the sewer, if you're not prepared to go all the way, don't put your boots on in the first place. — Edward Norton

I'm probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac. — Anne Lamott

Lord make me as holy as a pardoned sinner can be. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

We do our work for Jesus and with Jesus. It's not a matter of praying some times and working others. We pray the work. — Mother Teresa

Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing worthy of conceit, but I am indeed touched by the joys. This book is an ode to such joys, a digest of my collections from various sources. — Rabindranath Tagore

The problem with Christianity is more people profess the truth than live it. So much hypocrisy abounds that I can no longer say I count myself among them without being held to the same unachievable standard. — Shannon L. Alder

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint. — Katherine Anne Porter

Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is. — Joyce Appleby

Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet! — Frank Herbert

Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you've created until it's out there. — Matt Mullenweg

If she tried anything, she would be sorry. Adam was mine. She had thrown him away, thrown Jesse away - and I had snatched them up. Finders keepers. — Patricia Briggs

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you're obsessed with yourself, and I'm not - you can become unhinged so easily. — Taylor Swift

Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest. — Tom Glazer

Beware of those who speak negatively about everything and everybody. A negative person will never say a positive thing about you. — Suzy Kassem

I try to travel as much as I can ... I'm always looking for a reason to. — Imtiaz Ali