Naramata Bench Quotes & Sayings

Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves. — Glenn Reynolds

The Dothraki believed the stars were horses made of fire, a great herd that galloped across the sky by night. — George R R Martin

Learning to appreciate the beauty that surrounds you is one of the keys to your happiness. — Tom Giaquinto

One practical way to do this is to look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them of just your thought about them. Sometimes our thoughts act like dream glasses. When we have them on, we see dream children, dream husband, dream wife, dream ob, dream colleagues, dream partners, dream friends. We can live in a dream present for a dream future ... But if we take off the glasses, maybe, just maybe, we might see a little more accurately what is actually here. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

An evil librarian is taking over the school. He appears to be making my best friend his special evil library monitor. — Michelle Knudsen

No one said anything; they didn't need to. That's what it's like between best friends. Sometimes you just know what each other's thinking. You don't always have to say it. — Rose Impey

Crowded rooms and lonesome tunes and very little sky. — Rod McKuen

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield — W.B.Yeats

The American Revolution is sometimes said to have brought about the separation of church and state. The northern states made such declarations, but after 1776 they adopted taxes that forced everyone to support Christian teachings. William G. McLoughlin, quoting Supreme Court Justice David Brewer in 1892 that "this is a Christian nation," says of the separation of church and state in the Revolution that it "was neither conceived of nor carried out ... Far from being left to itself, religion was imbedded into every aspect and institution of American life. — Howard Zinn

The autodecrement is not magical. — Larry Wall

And no, I think i'm better than you because I am better than you. — Stacey Kade

The world was incomprehensibly intricate, and yet this forest made a simple sense in her heart that she felt nowhere else.
[S]he wanted only her own strawberry farm, the fragrance of the fields and the cedar trees, and to live simply in this place forever.
[S]he had fallen into loving him long before she knew herself, though it occurred to her now that she might never know herself, that perhaps no one ever does, that such a thing might not be possible.
[Y]ou should learn to say nothing that will cause you regret. You should not say what is not in your heart
or what is only in your heart for a moment. But you know this
silence is better. — David Guterson

If I am never to have you again after this night, this moment, you will remain the wife of my soul. Keeper of my heart. — Penelope Williamson

My mantra, and the key to all my success is simple: relationships over results, always. — Gary W. Goldstein