Listeth Quotes & Sayings

Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Sweet weeping baby Jesus he has a six-pack to beat all six-packs! — P.C. Cast

bloweth where it listeth, — George MacDonald

Yet they enjoy the high. In the surest sign that selenium actually makes them go mad, cattle grow addicted to locoweed despite its awful side effects and eat it to the exclusion of anything else. It's animal meth. — Sam Kean

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is failing. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible. — Seth Godin

Literature is, to my mind, the great teaching power of the world, the ultimate creator of all values, and it is this, not only in the sacred books whose power everybody acknowledges, but by every movement of imagination in song or story or drama that height of intensity and sincerity has made literature at all. Literature must take the responsibility of its power, and keep all its freedom: it must be like the spirit and like the wind that blows where it listeth; it must claim its right to pierce through every crevice of human nature, and to descrive the relation of the soul and the heart to the facts of life and of law, and to describe that relation as it is, not as we would have it be ... — W.B.Yeats

History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it. — Carl Sandburg

every emotion, every decision, every reaction can be boiled down to its essence- does it come from love or fear? Dark or light? — Jenny Klaire

A secret, like a chore, always seems to lead to another, one even more troublesome than the first. — Bette Lord

Make a vow to yourself today that from now on you will treat yourself with the same love, attention, affection, understanding, compassion and forgiveness that you so readily give to others. — Miya Yamanouchi

I came here to be happy, and I'm going to be happy. If I smile, then maybe I can convince my body just how happy I am. — Lisa See

When the blessed Spirit, that bloweth where it listeth, visits you and stirs the plumage of the soul, seek no cowardly shelter from it, but fling yourself upon it, and, though its sweep be awful, you shall be sustained. Only do this, do all, not in presumptuous daring, but in divine submission; in dependence, not on any strength that can be spent, but on the ever-living stay of all that trust in Him. — James Martineau

We might put it this way: every group already has, in one sense, a rule of life - its values and ways of doing things. The challenge is to identify and to authenticate what they are. A group can become a truer expression of community when it is able to express its own tacit rule. — The Society Of Saint John The Evangelist

Rippleclaw dipped his head. "Should I carry Hailstar back to camp?" Crookedjaw shook his head. "I will." Brambleberry raised one paw to stop him. "You can't. You're hurt." "It's only a few nips." Crookedjaw was too numb to feel anything. He crouched down while Rippleclaw and Owlfur dragged the RiverClan leader onto his back, then forced his legs to straighten to begin Hailstar's final journey home. Crookedjaw — Erin Hunter

I don't think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do. — Elliott Smith

You're happy when you help others become happy. — Dalai Lama

But there was always something about hay that always put her in a better mood. It smelled like summer, fresh, and clean. Full of the promise of renewal; of sustained life. — Sarah Price

I wanted to argue but I found I couldn't. Athena was pretty darn smart. — Rick Riordan

You never know when love will come along and change...everything. — K. Langston

Abuse is not caused by bad relationship dynamics. — Lundy Bancroft