Nesbits Lanes Quotes & Sayings

Put your heart aside. Duty comes first. But when fulfilling your duty, put your heart into it. It helps. — Josemaria Escriva

A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting. — B.F. Skinner

Half the world is screaming for water and freedom when the other half is ordering cocktails and complaining about the service. — Edward Docx

If any accolades come in the writing of this story, all praise will be His, all Glory will rightly go to Him. If He will allow me to share some part in this, I am truly humbled. — Lynn Dove

We have something to hide. We have secrets, worries, thoughts, hopes, desires, passions which no one else gets to know. We are sensitive when people get near those domains with their questions. And now, against all rules of tact the Bible speaks of the truth that in the end we will appear before Christ with everything we are and were ... . And we all know that we could justify ourselves before any human court, but not before this one. Lord, who can justify themselves?1 Bonhoeffer's sermon for Repentance sunday, November 19, 1933 — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I think about him all the time," she said. "It's awful. Nothing like this has ever happened to me before."
"You mean Simon?"
"Scrawny little mundane bastard," she said, and took her hands off Jordan's chest. "Except he isn't. Scrawny, anymore. Or a mundane. And I like spending time with him. He makes me laugh. And I like the way he smiles. You know, one side of his mouth goes up before the other one - Well, you live with him. You must have noticed."
"Not really," said Jordan.
"I miss him when he's not around," Isabelle confessed. — Cassandra Clare

Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families. — Kendrick Meek

Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril. — Hank Hanegraaff

Concentration breeds efficiency while division brings inefficiency, error, and tension. — Eknath Easwaran

It's a hard process to navigate ... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college. — Margaret Spellings

I think that when people hear the president [George W. Bush] speak, frankly, they think he's really stupid. But what people don't realize is that there's a genius behind that stupidity, and that genius is Harlan McCraney. — Arianna Huffington

It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States ... should unite in forming a system of national Government, so little liable to well founded objections. — George Washington