October 6th Birthstone Quotes & Sayings

Let us intoxicate ourselves with ink , since we lack the nectar of the gods — Flaubert

Jessie had never heard you could inherit madness. She thought madness was something that just happened to people in Shakespeare when the wind got up. — Lynne Truss

The divine awakening produces in the soul of the perfect a flame of love which is a participate of that living flame which is the Holy Spirit Himself ... this is the operation of the Holy Spirit in the soul that is transformed in love. — John Of The Cross

There are plenty of actors who've caught the singing bug and vice versa, but with musical performers, you're constantly a persona - which is something I love about acting: you play a character, you leave and you get to be yourself again. — Freddie Stroma

I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God. — William Faulkner

Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter. — Ansel Adams

Revenge. That's what he had come for ... But it didn't really exist, did it?
Just empty regret and bitter heartbreak, wandering the streets.
The city around him, white and grey and cold, felt suddenly so small.
Hyde had been right about family, there was no escaping it ...
Even when there was no one left to run from. — Ed Brubaker

Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose. — Benjamin Disraeli

Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever. — Anne Lamott

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes. — June Jordan

A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship. — Emanuel Swedenborg

They looked at me and asked me to be merciful; they did not command, they begged ... asking for the pity that lay dormant in my soul. And now I know that if those same eyes looked at me again and asked for every drop of my blood, if they asked me to bear death, torture, or even shame, I would become as thou truly sayest - a slave. — Emmuska Orczy

Crude carvings, Alviri work. Kenjak felt a small surge of pride that the Dvergiri had never produced something so ugly. Since — K. Eason

Never allow your fears to take control of you". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for their prescription, who has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer - even if it's not my grandparent. If there's an Arab-American or Mexican-American family being rounded up by John Ashcroft without benefit of an attorney or due process, I know that that threatens my civil liberties. And I don't have to be a woman to be concerned that the Supreme Court is trying to take away a woman's right, because I know that my rights are next. It is that fundamental belief - I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper - that makes this country work. — Barack Obama