N Lendustefnan Quotes & Sayings

Despite the failures you've had, you can be great. — Jon Jones

It is one thing to speak kindly to an irritating stranger on Monday. It is quite another thing to go on speaking kindly to the same irritating relative, or irritating employee, or irritating child day after day, week after week, year after year and come to see in that what God is asking of me, what God is teaching me about myself in this weary, weary moment. — Joan D. Chittister

I have the highest regard for Meryl Streep as an actress and think she's a fabulous person as well. — Lindsay Duncan

Here is what unsayable about us: Jonathan and I are members of a team so old nobody else could join even if we wanted them to. What binds us is stronger than sex. It is stronger than love. We're related. Each of us is the other born into a different flesh. — Michael Cunningham

I therefore used the last ten minutes of our classes to recite with them words from the Bible and verses from hymns, so that they would know them and the words would stay with them throughout their lives. The aim of my teaching was to bring to their hearts and thoughts the great truths of the Gospels so religion would have meaning in their lives and give them the strength to resist the irreligious forces that might assail them. I also tried to awaken in them a love for the Church, and a desire for that hour of spiritual peace to be found in the Sunday service. I taught them to respect traditional doctrines, but at the same time to hold fast to the saying of Paul that where the spirit of Christ is, there is freedom. — Albert Schweitzer

I particularly like that last phrase," Mom said. "About protecting your own happiness. — Will Schwalbe

Logic tells us that there is an end to everything, but then, Christ died on the cross, now there's a forever — Nano

My craziest ideas come from cartoons. I approach music by taking that cartoon extreme and the real life extreme and finding somewhere in the middle. The animated element lures people in, but the real-life substance puts the nail in the coffin. — Busta Rhymes

I see an ocean that's spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand. — Lauren DeStefano

You're a good girl and always have been, but deep down, you think there's more to life than always following the rules, and there's a part of you that craves the unknown. — Nicholas Sparks

A kiss is a rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving. — Edmond Rostand

I've always looked at friends as the family we choose. — Joan Lunden

You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that?
And I said,
Where do I put it down? — Anne Carson