Mytton Homes Quotes & Sayings

People can care about changing the world. But what gets them to act is pressure and social reward. — Joe Green

It takes enormous courage and humility to be open to others to find out who we really are. — Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

And then simultaneously I don't think they're asking you to necessarily write in stone that this is what you're going to do or what you have to do. — Bryan Burk

He turned and looked at the boy. Maybe he understood for the first time that to the boy he was himself an alien. A being from a planet that no longer existed. The tales of which were suspect. He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he. He tried to remember the dream but he could not. All that was left was the feeling of it. He thought perhaps they'd come to warn him. Of what? That he could not enkindle in the heart of the child what was ashes in his own. Even now some part of him wished they'd never found this refuge. Some part of him always wished it to be over. — Cormac McCarthy

don't compete but complete each other... — Nutan

Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer. — Branch Rickey

She went to the window. A fine sheen of sugary frost covered everything in sight, and white smoke rose from chimneys in the valley below the resort town. The window opened to a rush of sharp early November air that would have the town in a flurry of activity, anticipating the tourists the colder weather always brought to the high mountains of North Carolina.
She stuck her head out and took a deep breath. If she could eat the cold air, she would. She thought cold snaps were like cookies, like gingersnaps. In her mind they were made with white chocolate chunks and had a cool, brittle vanilla frosting. They melted like snow in her mouth, turning creamy and warm. — Sarah Addison Allen

It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its influence to a wide compass, but acts weakly on every single breast; it is placed at a distance from common spectators, and shines like one of the remote stars, of which the light reaches us, but not the heat. — Samuel Johnson

A lamb appears a lion, and we fear Each bush we see's a bear. — Francis Quarles

The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework. — Jennifer Weiner

Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune. — Honore De Balzac

I'd rather risk screwing up with you than not even try. - Under My Skin — J. Kenner

Worship isn't a feeling you wait for, it's a choice you make. — Chris Tomlin

A wise word of a stupid man is just a myth! A rock cannot emit light like a candle! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. But the Constitution is stable. It is a rock. — John C. Calhoun