Nickel And Dimed Book Quotes & Sayings

O Thou who art my quietness, my deep repose,
My rest from strife of tongues, my holy hill,
Fair is Thy pavilion, where I hold me still.
Back let them fall from me, my clamorous foes,
Confusions multiplied;
From crowding things of sense I flee, and Thee I hide.
Until this tyranny be overpast,
Thy hand will hold me fast;
What though the tumult of the storm increase,
Grant to Thy servant strength, O Lord, and bless with peace. — Amy Carmichael

Vice is punished, but virtue is not rewarded — George Orwell

Everything has to be understood in opposition to something else. For some dang reason, the ego prefers to make one side better than the other, so we choose. And we decide males are better than females, America is better than Canada, Democrats are better than Republicans. And for most people, once this decision is made, it is amazing the amount of blindness they become capable of. They really don't see what's right in front of them. Once you see this, it's an amazing breakthrough, and that is the starting place for moving away from dualistic thinking. — Richard Rohr

Now, four years out of high school, I'm in an environment where people appreciate personality over appearance, and that makes me happy. — Connor Franta

Life is not a destination to be reached, but it is a journey to be enjoyed. — Debasish Mridha

Renfield, my ass. What I had on my hands was a Van Helsing. — Jordan Castillo Price

It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it. — Thomas Jefferson

I am saying whatever humanity does. Nature always triumphs. — Sarwat Chadda

The idea of authority, and therefore the respect for authority, is an anti-Semitic notion. It is in Catholicism, in Christianity, in the very teachings of Jesus that it finds at once its lay and its religious consecration. — Kadmi Cohen

Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black.
[Lat., Furtum ingeniosus ad omne,
Qui facere assueret, patriae non degener artis,
Candida de nigris, et de candentibus atra.] — Ovid

When actors are too good-looking, I can't memorize them. For example, I have never seen a picture of Sienna Miller where I didn't say, That girl's pretty. Who is that? — Tina Fey

Your life is a work of art, a craft to be carefully mastered. For patience has replaced time, and you are your own destination. — Rick Jarow

In America anyone can still become someone. — Jesse Owens

The strenuous life tastes better — William James