Livened Quotes & Sayings

My witness is the empty sky. — Jack Kerouac

Sometimes I loved the disruptive student in class who livened up lectures with wisecracks - it put a spin on things, added flavor, made me laugh. Other times, I wished the heckler would just shut up so I could learn something. — Kaui Hart Hemmings

Will still produce considerable overlook and shadowing on adjoining streets. — Greg Nickels

You can't have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust. — Cornel West

Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus. — Charles Spurgeon

No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation. — Mahatma Gandhi

The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

More drills for poor readers do not work. — Stephen D. Krashen

There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power ... — Joseph Sobran

The works of God are great mysteries and may truly always be hidden from us, however it is not wrong to lead your own personal enquiry through your prayers to the Lord. — Lady Jane Grey

Bayliss resumed reading. He was one of those readers who, whether their subject be a murder case or funny anecdote, adopt a measured and sepulchral delivery which gives a suggestion of tragedy and horror to whatever they read. At the church he attended, children would turn pale and snuggle up to their mothers when he read. — P.G. Wodehouse

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In his entirely personal experience of them, English was jazz music, German was classical music, French was ecclesiastical music, and Spanish was from the streets. Which is to stay, stab his heart and it would bleed French, slice his brain open and its convolutions would be lined with English and German, and touch his hands and they would feel Spanish. — Yann Martel

It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers. — Robert Byrd

My eyebrows make a more profound impact on other people than they do on me. I just let 'em grow. — Peter Gallagher