Martha Thatcher Quotes & Sayings

Which comes first with you, righteousness and holiness or experiences? There is no more urgently vital test that we can apply to ourselves than that. The proof of the life of God in the soul is that we say, "Though he slay me, yet will I love him." I do not care what happens to me. If all goes wrong with me, it does not matter. I still desire him above everything else. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory. — George S. Patton

The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all. — Gretchen Rubin

A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues. — Lee Iacocca

I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I'd seen hundreds of full moons in my life, but they were not limitless. When one starts thinking of the full moon as a common sight that will come again to one's eyes ad-infinitum, the value of life is diminished and life goes by uncherished. 'This may be my last moon,' I sighed, feeling a sudden sweep of sorrow; and went back to reading more of The Odyssey. — Roman Payne

That's why you have the long hours in the studio and on sets: so you can come out and see the fans. To see the smiles you put on people's faces. — Drake Bell

That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy. — Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

I don't miss much about my childhood. I lived in a good neighborhood, a wacky neighborhood. It was a very boy-heavy neighborhood - kind of Lord of the Flies-y. So many weird things happened, funny things. — Justin Theroux

We need only circumstantial evidence to fry you. — Mohamedou Ould Slahi

I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon ... [disgustedly] in Cardiff! — Russell T. Davies

He was in his midforties, tall and overweight, a sausage-fingered vulgarian in a slick suit. — Terry Hayes

The only thing worse than being in the Hall of Fame is not being in the Hall of Fame. — Tom Waits

As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering hisfellows. All hope in the grand possibilities of life are blasted. — Anna Julia Cooper

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return. — Sidney Poitier