Morrical Builders Quotes & Sayings

Alma had grown as tall as a man by now, with broad shoulders ... This need not have necessarily precluded her from marriage. Some men liked a larger woman, who promised a stronger disposition, and Alma, it could be argued, had a handsome profile
at least from her left side. She certainly had a fine, friendly nature. Yet she was missing some invisible, essential ingredient, and so, despite all the frank eroticism that lay hidden within her body, her presence in a room did not kindle ideas of ardor in any man.
It did not help that Alma herself believed she was unlovely. She believed this only because she had been told it so many times, and in so many different ways. Most recently, the news of her homeliness had come straight from her father ... — Elizabeth Gilbert

Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes ; yet they are usually left unchronicled. — William Ramsay

Renounce and enjoy." Those who are compulsively attached to the results of action cannot really enjoy what they do; they get downcast when things do not work out and cling more desperately when they do. So the Gita classifies the karma of attachment as pleasant at first, but "bitter as poison in the end" (18:38), because of the painful bondage of conditioning. Again, — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

Some days are diamond. Some days are stone. — Rachel Howzell Hall

I don't want any dog to be put down. — Tila Tequila

I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown. — Luis Fortuno

I have an almost religious zeal ... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up. — Dan Millman

Pannenberg's conception of retroactive continuity ultimately means that history flows fundamentally from the future into the past, that the future is not basically a product of the past. — E. Frank Tupper

if the count of monte cristo could escape the chateau d'if, william smithback could escape from river oaks — Douglas Preston

The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on. — Brad Delson

We had to fight, because to decline battle was a defeat. — Bernard Cornwell

[L]iberation [doesn't occur] in wearing robes or performing ritual acts. — Steve Hagen

A boy who was such a threat to my mental health and happiness should not be so tall. — Jennifer Echols

Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher. — Jeff Bridges

I look upon you as so many pawns, as inanimate pawns. — Anton Chekhov