Page 598 Quotes & Sayings

Do no talk while eating. — Mata Amritanandamayi

They devote themselves every day to what Jesus taught: to prayer, to fellowship, to breaking of bread together. They shared what they owned; they served each other's needs. Ethnic barriers came down as they became known by the way they loved each other. It's a different community, devoted to a Jesus way of life with God. — John Ortberg

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it. — Cory Doctorow

I think the game has opened up, and that's why I decided to come back and try to be a part of it. — Mario Lemieux

The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

People use me as a figurehead, and to me that misses the point and is blatantly offensive to thin women - my sister, for one. Curves don't epitomise a woman. Saying, 'Skinny is ugly' should be no more acceptable than saying fat is. I find all this stuff a very controlling and effective way of making women obsess over their weight, instead of exploiting their more important attributes, such as intellect, strength and power. We could be getting angry about unequal pay and unequal opportunities, but we're too busy being told we're not thin enough or curvy enough. We're holding ourselves back. — Robyn Lawley

This is life," I whispered as I steadily held his gaze. "Skylar, know that. It is life to get things wrong. It happens all the time to everyone. We make mistakes, all of us. There is no shame in that. None at all. The thing that's important to understand is, if you make a mistake, you try and learn from it. But honey, you will make mistakes and that's okay. — Kristen Ashley

Daddy, look - one of the gnomes actually bit me! — J.K. Rowling

How could it be true that [he] was dead, and how would it feel to have him dead in her heart forever? — Cornelia Funke

At the end of the day, some authors will endure and most, including some very good ones, will not. Why do I think reading is important? It is such an effective medium between mind and mind. We think largely in words. A medium made only of words doesn't impose the barrier of any other medium. It is naked and unprotected communication. That's how you get pregnant. May you always be so. — Roger Ebert

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art. — Joyce Maynard

Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Best fishing in troubled waters. — John Harington