Maureens Quotes & Sayings

If you don't want to change, you are kicked out of the technological age. — Sunday Adelaja

We have all learned everything we know physically - from walking to running a marathon - by trial and error, so there's no reason to become our own worst enemies when we suffer a setback. From time to time everyone falls short of their goals. It's an illusion to believe that champions succeed because they do everything perfectly. You can be certain that every archer who hits the bull's-eye has also missed the bull's-eye a thousand times while learning the skill. — Amby Burfoot

If something is worth being rude about, it is worth understanding as well. — David Bentley

I can never describe myself as a movie star. I don't know when that happens but it's certainly not me. — Olivia Wilde

What you have to do is to look at what's going to keep our economic growth going, what's going to make sure jobs are being created. — Barack Obama

If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it? — Gordon Lightfoot

Like foxes to a dustbin, — Robert Galbraith

Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things. — Bernard Sahlins

After that she paired each of her outfits with one of his. She tucked the cuff of her blouse in his blue suit pocket. A skirt hem she looped around a trouser leg. Another dress she wrapped in the embrace of his blue cardigan. It was as if lots of invisible Maureens and Harolds were loitering in her wardrobe, simply waiting fro the opportunity to step out. It made her smile, and then it made her cry; but she didn't change them back. — Rachel Joyce

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. — Aldous Huxley

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace. — Anthony Burgess

I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world. — A. J. McLean

No one has to know. No one would. It would be her secret, one she would share with the mountains only. The question is whether it is a secret she can live with, and Parwana thinks she knows the answer. She has lived with secrets all her life. — Khaled Hosseini

Jim devoted ten days largely to prayer to make sure that this was indeed what God intended for him. He was given new assurance, and wrote to his parents of his intention to go to Ecuador. Understandably, they, with others who knew Jim well, wondered if perhaps his ministry might not be more effective in the United States, where so many know so little of the Bible's really message He replied: I dare not stay home while Quiches perish. What if the well-filled church in the homeland needs stirring? They have the Scriptures Moses, and the prophets, and a whole lot more. Their condemnation is written on their bank books and in the dust on their Bible covers. — Elisabeth Elliot