Michael Endicott Quotes & Sayings

When you make up your mind to do good things, you will accomplish them if you use dynamic will power to follow through. No matter what the circumstances are, if you go on trying, God will create the means by which your will shall find its proper reward. — Paramahansa Yogananda

The implicit requirements of the committed relationship Joshua was pursuing with Kimiko assumed spending Saturday nights together for the purposes of intimacy. — Aleksandar Hemon

Thank you," she says and yanks the pull-tab off the soda can. She takes a big sip and aaahs. Then she takes the pull-tab and puts it on her ring finger like a wedding band. She holds her hand out and looks at it.
"Someday," she says wistfully.
"Wow, a soda pop pull-tab ring. You're easy. Most girls want their ring from Tiffany's."
"Well, I'm not most girls."
She's telling me? — Caprice Crane

Your powers of observation are formidable, Michael says and Darien giggles behind one perfectly manicured hand, like some sort of preppie geisha. — Stephanie Wardrop

Waste is the highest virtue one can achieve in an advanced capitalist society — Haruki Murakami

I'm so sorry," she said after a few minutes. "I'm so so so sorry. I'm going to buy you a car and make your bedroom bigger and all we'll ever eat is yogurt and ... — Maggie Stiefvater

Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet. — N. T. Wright

Suddenly a force greater than my common sense - which, I'll admit, has been pretty faulty lately, propels me - and I find myself creeping up the long staircase to the forbidden second floor.
I need to see Michael's room.
I need to find out if he is a secret slob, or if there's even more interesting evidence of whom he is up there. I'm not expecting to find anything big, like a literal skeleton in his closet. But I am going to find it, whatever it is. And I will know once and for all who he is.
I make it to the landing when I hear a burst of barking below me and I freeze.
Someone has let a dog in.
Which means that some member of the Endicott family is actually in the house.
Which means that one of Michael's parents is about to catch me snooping. — Stephanie Wardrop

I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place. — Rick Steves

Every major country on earth, whether it's the U.K., whether it's France, whether it's Canada, has managed to provide healthcare to all people as a right and they are spending significantly less per capita on health care than we are. So I do not accept the belief that the United States of America can't do that. — Bernie Sanders

I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press. — Michael Hutchence

The difficulty, then, is when you create a church, an institution, and you create a dogma. When you create an ideology, that's the danger. Communism, too, is a beautiful idea, but millions of people died when communism became an ideology. — Michael Haneke

Just stand. Bend. Balance. — Lisa McMann

Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God. — Edward McKendree Bounds

Time is that in which all things pass away. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Raindrops fall from clouds of gray.
The fragile flowers grow.
Teardrops seem all I can say.
They speak of endless woe.
Your fingers wipe my grief away.
A seed of love you sow.
A hardened heart reverts to clay.
You mold my love just so. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West. — Ani DiFranco