Mrs Delvile On Lady Honoria Quotes & Sayings

The dominating idea of English society was not cultivate virtue but to avoid scandal. — Edward Short

A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance. — Miriam Defensor Santiago

The easiness with which she hears of her faults, is only another effect of the levity with which she commits them. — Fanny Burney

O God, the Eternal All, help me to know that all things are shadows, but Thou art substance, all things are quicksands, but Thou art mountain, all things are shifting, but Thou art anchor, all things are ignorance, but Thou art wisdom. — Anonymous

Phyllis Tickle, in her book The Great Emergence,2 argues that we are undergoing the most recent of our every-500-year "rummage sales" - an upheaval in culture and worldview that will inevitably reshape our faith interpretations and institutions as surely as the Great Schism of the eleventh century and the Great Reformation of the sixteenth century. This tsunami of change is well under way, marked by the postmodern and post-Christian sensibilities of the millennial generation. — Marjorie, J. Thompson

A book may be as great a thing as a battle. — Benjamin Disraeli

Americans Never Quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We Make History.
-John McCain — John McCain

I'd like it if you could love me for a little while at least. — Paula McLain

What's normal, she said. adults are all just weird in different ways. — Ellen Wittlinger

Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs. — Barton Gellman

It seems to me, though, that you always understand very well what I can't say very well. Trouble is I end up being even worse at saying things well. — Haruki Murakami

There is no place on you I can't love, and love grants me entry ... — Eileen Wilks