Noriyo Tateno Quotes & Sayings

I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more. — Theodore Roosevelt

Nature attunes children to receive the coded messages that parents issue how to live a joyful and virtuous life. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The spring has sprung, the grass is rizz. I wonder where them birdies is? — A.A. Milne

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time. — Pierre Loti

This is a Southern gift, isn't it - tremendous self-regard diluted with humor and modesty. That's what they mean by Southern charm, right? — Michael Cunningham

Mrs Poste, who had wished people to live beautiful lives and yet be ladies and gentlemen. — Stella Gibbons

If I have so far argued that Foucault is a kind of closet liberal and thus deeply modern, I need to be equally critical of evangelical (and especially American) Christianity's modernity and its appropriation of Enlightenment notions of the autonomous self. Indeed, many otherwise orthodox Christians, who recoil at the notion of theological liberalism, have unwittingly adopted notions of freedom and autonomy that are liberal to the core. Averse to hierarchies and control, contemporary evangelicalism thrives on autonomy: the autonomy of the nondenominational church, at a macrocosmic level, and the autonomy of the individual Christian, at the microcosmic level. And it does not seem to me that the emerging church has changed much on this score; indeed, some elements of emergent spirituality are intensifications of this affirmation of autonomy and a laissez-faire attitude with respect to institutions. — James K.A. Smith

Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else. — Jim Butcher

Holiness is the perfection of all His other attributes: His power is holy power; His mercy is holy mercy; His wisdom is holy wisdom. It is His holiness more than any other attribute that makes Him worthy of our praise. — Jerry Bridges

My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me. Every gleam of sunshine is blighted to me in the art at least. Can it therefore be wondered at that I paint continual storms? "Tempest o'er tempest roll'd" - still the "darkness" is majestic. — John Constable

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates. — Sarah McLachlan

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. — Jane Austen