Nervestra Quotes & Sayings

I do - oh, indeed I do - desire to live up to my profession, to be His, for time and eternity. But I am learning to sec how very weak I am, and how easily Satan can conquer me even when I do strive against him. I do believe with my head that Jesus can, and will give me His grace, and I do not need to fear, yet somehow my heart seems to be hard and cold and not to take it in. Oh, if we were but there - where there is no more sin ! Oh do not forget to pray for me, and don't ever doubt the love of your unworthy friend. — Frances Ridley Havergal

I learned some chords and I started watching anybody I could, once I really got into it. — Johnny Rivers

Lord Rodrik was seldom seen without a book in hand, be it in the privy, on the deck of his Sea Song, or whilst holding audience. Asha had oft seen him reading on his high seat beneath the silver scythes. He would listen to each case as it was laid before him, pronounce his judgment ... and read a bit whilst his captain-of-guards went to bring in the next supplicant. — George R R Martin

Weightless and endless. Timeless and restless. Hopelessly breathless — Amy Harmon

If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries.
[Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The colored hobo and now Junior Rabbit had told us, 'Be ready to compete but be ready to fight too or you may not get a chance to compete'. — Clarence Hunter

How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Jesus prays the Psalms of Israel with his disciples: this element is fundamental for understanding the figure of Jesus, but also for understanding the Psalms themselves, which in him could be said to acquire a new subject, a new mode of presence, and an extension beyond Israel into universality. — Pope Benedict XVI

It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree — Guy Gavriel Kay

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them. — Ann Brashares

Bernard King is the only guy that ever scared the hell out of me. — Dominique Wilkins

Anger made her prettier. Especially her eyes - it was a look that put men to shame. — Herman Koch

I have the same birthday as George Washington. No I don't. I don't even know who George Washington is. — Andrew VanWyngarden