Mendum Beyond Quotes & Sayings

If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream. — Francis Chan

Be happy with who God made you to be, and quit wishing you were something different. — Joel Osteen

Like anybody, I like clothes, and I enjoy what I like to wear. We might have a difference in personal outfit choices. Some might not like it. But to judge someone because of their appearance is pretty foolish. If you have time to do that, I suggest you look at yourself in the mirror and spend more time developing yourself. Come on, it's 2013. — G-Dragon

Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all. — Brent Scowcroft

If you can't laugh at yourself, you're cooked! — Elizabeth Taylor

I'd like to do a play in New York. — Matt Smith

I seek the city because there is nothing sweeter than not being alone in your loneliness. — Charlotte Eriksson

Your salvation would be hollow if you don't help each other come home. Remember we are family, and families leave no one behind. — Chris Stewart

The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.' — Ayelet Waldman

The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you. — Ridley Pearson

The theologian Paul Tillich wrote that "loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude." Because the borderline finds solitude so difficult to tolerate, she is trapped in a relentless metaphysical loneliness from which the the only relief comes from of the physical presence of others. So she will often rush to singles bars or with crowded haunts, often with disappointing--or even violent--results. — Jerold J. Kreisman

We are so very rich if we know just a few people in a way in which we know no others. — Catherine Bramwell-Booth

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them. — Augustine Of Hippo

One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings. — Nicola Cornick

We could choose to celebrate our differences, rather than over-analyze them. This might help us become more realistic about the generalizations to which we subscribe. For example, consider this. If women are the overemotional ones, why do so many bar fights break out between men? Such brawls do not spring from logical, calm places. — Cathy Burnham Martin