Mrs Lyons Superstition Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children. — Gabrielle Zevin

During holiday parties when people used to ask me what I did for a living, I would tell them I sold resort timeshares. That was an effective conversational nonstarter, until I met someone that actually did sell resort timeshares. — Dean Karnazes

Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? Does it improve upon the silence? — Mona Simpson

She smiled smugly. We came to an agreement, the duck and I. — Cassandra Clare

To make myself understood and to diminish the distance between us, I called out: "I am an evening cloud too." They stopped still, evidently taking a good look at me. Then they stretched towards me their fine, transparent, rosy wings. That is how evening clouds greet each other. They had recognized me. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Lord Nicholas St. John was their only hope, and she had been on the roof when he arrived, for heaven's sake. Ladies did not go traipsing about on rooftops.
And certainly gentlemen did not frequent the homes of those ladies who did traipse about on roortops.
It did not matter if the rooftop in question was in dire need of repair.
Or that the lady in question had no choice. — Sarah MacLean

Among the most famous of these Supreme Court cases of exercise of political power I believe are the cases of Roe V. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, two 1973 cases based on false statements which created a constitutional right to abortion. — Sam Brownback

It's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept. And then you start to hurry. You work faster and faster and every time you look up there seems to be just as much left to sweep as before, and you try even harder, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop
and still the street stretches away in front of you. That's not the way to do it.
You must never think of the whole street at once, understand? You must only concentrate on the next step, the next breath, the next stroke of the broom, and the next, and the next. Nothing else.
That way you enjoy your work, which is important, because then you make a good job of it. And that's how it ought to be.
And all at once, before you know it, you find you've swept the whole street clean, bit by bit. what's more, you aren't out of breath. That's important, too ... (28-29) — Michael Ende

No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ. — John Piper

If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch. — K.d. Lang

He'd known even then, though: He'd start as a grunt, but the Dregs would become his army. — Leigh Bardugo

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership
you are practicing followership. — Margaret Thatcher