Mator Quotes & Sayings

The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible. — Benjamin Rush

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy. — Sharon Van Etten

followed the one percent rule: improve one percent each day, in each of these areas of life. — James Altucher

It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are. — Joyce Carol Oates

You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying. — Cheryl Strayed

Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love. — John R.W. Stott

Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit, you don't know how to dance, do you, Josephine? I didn't know how to dance. I didn't want anything to do with his biscuit. — Ruta Sepetys

Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff. — Stendhal

Salim is upset. The fax that was waiting for him when he woke this morning was curt, and alternately chiding, stern, and disappointed: Salim was letting them down - his sister, Fuad, Fuad's business partners, the Sultanate of Oman, the whole Arab world. Unless he was able to get the orders, Fuad would no longer consider it his obligation to employ Salim. They depended upon him. His hotel was too expensive. What was Salim doing with their money, living like a sultan in America? Salim read the fax in his room (which has always been too hot and stifling, so last night he opened a window, and was now too cold) and sat there for a time, his face frozen into an expression of complete misery. — Anonymous

One of the strengths, and weaknesses, of liberal democratic societies is giving the benefit of the doubt even to one's enemies — Garry Kasparov

What you have learned from experience is worth much more than gold. If you have a house it may burn down. Any kind of possession can be lost, but your experience is yours forever. Keep it and find a way to use it. — Somaly Mam

Head up, heart open. To better days! — T.F. Hodge

Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way. — Pope Francis