Nellie Pickersgill Quotes & Sayings

My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild. — Antonia Fraser

God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to be rubbed into the secular community, as salt is rubbed into meat, to stop it going bad. And when society does go bad, we Christians tend to throw up our hands in pious horror and reproach the non-Christian world; but should we not rather reproach ourselves? One can hardly blame unsalted meat for going bad. It cannot do anything else. The real question to ask is: Where is the salt? — John R.W. Stott

You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement. — Tariq Ramadan

Chicago's merchant princes like devils. George Pullman continued to cut jobs and wages without reducing rents, even though his company's treasury was flush with over $60 million in cash. Pullman's friends cautioned that he was being pigheaded and had underestimated the anger of his workers. He moved his family out of Chicago and hid his best china. On — Erik Larson

It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter. — Emily Blunt

It is possible, you know, to drift off to an unknown world and find happiness there. Maybe even more happiness than you've ever known before. — John Boyne

I have absolutely no ambition. My goal has already been exceeded. — Shamir

Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together. — Rebecca Solnit

excellent relations between these two long-intermarried families of constitutional monarchs. In Jerusalem, under the authority of the Great Powers Condominium for the Holy Land, renewed clashes have occurred between Orthodox Jews and their Muslim counterparts at the Temple Mount. In India the governor general, Gurchuran Singh, is on holiday at a hill station but has met with representatives of India's sporting and business elite for a briefing on their preparations for hosting next year's Commonwealth Games. They will hold — Richard Ned Lebow

God rewards those who seek Him. Not those who seek doctrine of religion or systems or creeds. Many settle for these lesser passions, but the reward goes to those who settle for nothing less than Jesus himself. And what is the reward? What awaits those who seek Jesus? Nothing short of the heart of Jesus. — Max Lucado

What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time. — Chuck Tanner

Lottie tilted her head to one side and looked Maya up and down. You're a little bit of a thing, but I hear you're good at stirring up big trouble. — Sara Humphreys

If we provide the young with a strong foundation, we can leave behind a legacy substantially greater than most are able to bequeath. As for the women, the old adage that you invest in a woman, you invest in a generation, still rings true today. — Joyce Banda

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change. — Myles Munroe

Don't worry," I repiled, "I usually don't argue with the voices. — Elizabeth Chandler