Mottern Family Quotes & Sayings

He was in that state of highly respectful sulkiness which is peculiar to English servants. — Wilkie Collins

Even when you realize that the one before you is an enemy and must be treated sternly, do not hurt with words. — R.K. Narayan

The kerosene record player is not a very efficient device. — Frank Zappa

As long as there will be a man, there will be wars. — Albert Einstein

Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea. — Jim Gerlach

The telephone is there for your convenience, not for the convenience of your callers. Yet, as soon as we hear the phone ring, we act as if we are firefighters rushing to a five-alarm fire. We run to pick it up as if our lives depended on the call being answered at once. I have seen people interrupt quiet family dinners, dedicated reading times and meditation periods to answer — Robin S. Sharma

Sometimes, in order to find happiness, one must allow some old bridges to collapse, in order to build better ones. — Lionel Suggs

It was the particular feel of him that made me want to go back: everything that is said is said underneath, where, if it does matter, to acknowledge it is to let on to your embarrassment. That I love you makes me want to run and hide. — Jenny Boully

Say the sea. Say the sea. Say the sea. So that perhaps a drop of that magic may wander through time, and something might find it, and save it before it disappears forever. Say the sea. Because it's what we have left. Because faced by the sea, we without crosses, without magic, we must still have a weapon, something, so as not to die in silence, that's all. — Alessandro Baricco

By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men. — Richard P. Stanley

We took the liberty to make some enquiries concerning the ground of their pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury, and observed that we considered all mankind as our friends who had done us no wrong, nor had given us any provocation.

The Ambassador [of Tripoli] answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.

{Letter from the commissioners, John Adams & Thomas Jefferson, to John Jay, 28 March 1786} — Thomas Jefferson

It was just that, no matter where I found myself, I felt like there was a hole inside me, with the wind rushing through. I never felt satisfied. From the outside you wouldn't imagine I had any troubles. — Haruki Murakami

What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps. — Christopher Hitchens

We are saved by grace, through faith in Christ alone! And since there is no room for human merit there can be no grounds for human boasting! — Steve Camp