Middendorfs Slidell Quotes & Sayings

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no other is, and to do what no other can do. — William Ellery Channing

I know now that truth is a troubling thing. You can't drink your way to it. You can't snort your way to it. You can't fuck your way to it. You can't love your way to it. You can only let it envelop you and try to make sense of it all. — Nick Miller

I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't. — Muriel Spark

I've kept my phone on silent for a year and a half. For me, it's too much noise. It's not my jam. I like to keep things a lot more easygoing. The world's not going to stop if you don't pick up your phone. — Carly Pope

Righteousness is light;
wickedness is darkness.
Righteousness and joy are brothers;
evil and sorrow are cousins. — Matshona Dhliwayo

That makes about as much sense as lopping off your foot to avoid twisting an ankle. — Eileen Wilks

I have talked about the deterioration of the atmosphere between Washington and Moscow. It was quite clear that in the year 1980, which at the same time was an election year in America, these negotiations would not go very far, but immediately after the start of the Reagan administration we in Bonn started to try influencing them on the medium-range nuclear weapons negotiations, and we told them that in our view the best outcome would be zero-zero, zero on either side. — Helmut Schmidt

Perhaps the postponement in modern culture of the historically relevant challenges of adolescents, — Louis Cozolino

What would you think of a person who always wanted things from you but never offered a word of thanks in return? We can be that way with God, can't we? Let's remember to thank Him. — Greg Laurie

All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice. — John Henry Jowett

Such self-denial 'may appear demanding,' but it will allow you, so to speak, to be and to breathe within the heart of the church. — Pope Francis

Conversion by the Holy Spirit is a spiritual illumination of the soul. God's grace lights up the dark heart. And when a man has once been kindled at the cross of Christ, he is bound to shine. — Theodore L. Cuyler

I do not think it is any benefit for artists or fans to have all the new, wide distribution channels in the online world controlled by those who have controlled the old, narrower ones, .. This is especially true if they achieve that control by leveraging their dominance in content or conduit space in an anticompetitive way to control the new, independent music services that are attempting to enhance the consumer's experience of music. — Orrin Hatch

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be. — Jim Harrison