Nonresistance Amish Quotes & Sayings

We can't feel the rotation of the planet, but in some ways we can because our bodily systems are reacting to it and have it inherent in them. To me, that's such a powerful thought. — Jessa Gamble

Are you purring at me?"
"I might be," Rune said. His deep voice was rougher, and lazy with intimacy. "Unless you've done something wrong. Then I'm growling at you again. — Thea Harrison

I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters. — Elizabeth Meriwether

We just have to accept that life is perfectly imperfect. — Han Nolan

Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed. — Prince Andrew

A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with the assumption that there are spheres of thought in which it is impossible to conceive of absolute truth existing independently of the values and position of the subject and unrelated to the social context. — Karl Mannheim

Don't seat quiet kids in high interaction areas of the classroom, says communications professor James McCroskey. They won't talk more in those areas; they'll feel more threatened and will have trouble concentrating. Make it easy for introverted kids to participate in class, but don't insist. Forcing highly apprehensive young people to perform orally is harmful. It will increase apprehension and reduce self-esteem. — Susan Cain

Elections have consequences. — Scott Walker

I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that. — Earl Hamner Jr.

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans. — Mavis Staples

Sometimes we forget the most basic things, since it has been too long since we learned them. I realized I had done the same with my own lesson plan. You do not teach students to throw until you have taught them to fall. And I must not teach you to fight if you do not understand how to lose. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I said to my soul
be still
and
wait
so the darkness
shall be the
light
and the stillness
the
dancing. — T. S. Eliot

The difference between a great software guy and an okay software guy is huge. A great software guy is worth ten times an okay software guy. — Michael Lewis