Navy Paddle Quotes & Sayings

Books have a world all their own — Madeline Hunter

If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen only if superior men are given absolute freedom to think what they want to think and say what they want to say. — H.L. Mencken

Sister, why do you do that?"
"Do what?"
"Cage the animals at night?"
"Well ... " She looked up and out through the barred window before answering me."We don't want to, Jennings, but we have to. You see, the animals that are given to us we have to take care of. If we didn't cage them up in one place, we might lose them, they might get hurt or damaged. It's not the best thing, but it's the only way we have to take care of them."
"But if somebody loved one them," I asked, "wouldn't it be a good idea to let them have one? To keep, I mean?"
"Yes, it would be. But not everyone would love them and take care of them as you would. I wish I could give them all away tomorrow." She looked at me. There were tears in her eyes. "But I can't. My heart would break if I saw just one of those animals lying by the wayside uncared for, unloved. No, Jennings. It's better if we keep them together. — Jennings Michael Burch

Don't be afraid to step out, have dreams, have visions, have hopes and always, always, always believe in miracles. — Joyce Meyer

Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath. KABIR — Jon Kabat-Zinn

I work hard and I will always work hard. But I feel very lucky with the way that it has all come together. — Vanessa Carlton

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don't read a book out of its right time for you. — Doris Lessing

There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves — Ajahn Chah

Take one man, one foolish woman, put them together in a bowl and stir. — Sarah Addison Allen

Dieting by portion control doesn't work because one is constantly fighting addictive drives. — Joel Fuhrman