Overhears The Conversation Quotes & Sayings

We gain or strengthen a testimony by bearing it. — Dallin H. Oaks

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. — Isaac Newton

I may be taller than her on my knees. Does she need a man she can climb? — Carol Maloney Scott

She wrote, 'Dandelion, I love you.' And I thought that was magic. It's not in you, it's between you. It's bigger and stronger than you are — Melvin Burgess

I think ... I'm perceived as an everyperson. There is no pedestal. I'm no different from anybody else. — Sarah McLachlan

It was a tender and heart-dissolving prayer, full of sorrow, yet so imbued with celestial hopes, that the music of a heavenly harp, swept by the fingers of the dead, seemed faintly to be heard among the saddest accents of the minister. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution. — Sarah Palin

This is what writing is: I one language, I another language, and between the two, the line that makes them vibrate; writing forms a passageway between two shores. — Helene Cixous

The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines. — Daniel Hannan

If I were to receive a pair of the blessed prophetic sandals to place on my head, then I shall consider myself no less than a fully crowned king. — Anonymous

Shouldn't the preacher who married the couple in the first place have to fly back in on a broomstick for that, too - that moving on? Shouldn't there be some ritual involving a long walk over hot coals while all the guests who'd been at the wedding watched, weeping, throwing stones at your bare — Laura Kasischke

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day. — Max Aitken

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge. — Wayne Dyer

I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me feel anxious. — Penelope Cruz

You are always your own best guru, your own best teacher, the answers are always inside you. — Sathya Sai Baba