Muriele Rainwater Quotes & Sayings

By all means, let us simplify the means of controlling time and the myriad details of our lives, but let us vigorously preserve our responsibility to direct our lives toward human accomplishment, rather than the pure accumulation of information. — Paul Rice

The connoisseurs sniff, categorise, rank, price, demote.
Celadons, the colour caught between green and blue, get sky after rain, and kingfishers, and iced water, all of which are lyrical. — Edmund De Waal

Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothing happens ... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if they are not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered. — Wilferd Peterson

That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted. — Ken Kesey

Great is the strife between beauty and modesty. — Ovid

I perceive all this, and believe that you were born under my star. Yes, you were born under my star! Tremble! for where that is the case with mortals, the threads of their destinies are difficult to disentangle; knottings and catchings occur - sudden breaks leave damage in the web. — Charlotte Bronte

In short, if you are using a shovel to dig yourself into a hole, a credit card company will be happy to give you a backhoe. — Jason G. Miller

This discrepancy between evolutionary success and individual suffering is perhaps the most important lesson we can draw from the Agricultural Revolution. — Yuval Noah Harari

Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts! — J.R.R. Tolkien

My head fills up with images of past gatherings there: pep rallies, award ceremonies, talent shows, speaker days, career days, holiday pageants, all things that Isabelle and I attended together, even while sitting in different parts of the auditorium with our own sets of friends. — Edwidge Danticat

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives. — Jane Rule

Love everyone before judging them. — Debasish Mridha

Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion. — John Henry Newman

When happiness becomes our standard for judging truth, things that make us happy give us permission to do some things that otherwise would be considered wrong. — Craig Groeschel

Fate, the monstrous scene-shifter, was setting the stage for the death of Uncle Fred, the elderly man. — George Bellairs