Page 643 Quotes & Sayings

Service to society is the rent we pay for living on this planet. — Joseph Murray

We knew what it was like to go without a lot of things, but we didn't mind, because we were going without those things together. — Ruth Riley

Jesus existed, and those vocal persons who deny it do so not because they have considered the evidence with the dispassionate eye of the historian, but because they have some other agenda that this denial serves. — Bart D. Ehrman

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease. — Jimmy Carter

My mother was a huge Steelers fan, so they were my team growing up. — Deron Williams

There are lovers content with longing.
I'm not one of them. — Rumi

But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, I just know it. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Don't speak if you don't have to about trivia. The time for joking comes because of the trust, and you have to earn the trust. So, I don't alibi for anything, and I'll take the heat. That's the other thing. Don't let them take the heat. We take the heat. — Phil Ramone

Why can't the world be like a summer day, when I thought that health care would be an ethical decision and wars existed only to be stopped? — Madeleine M. Kunin

Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy who doesn't make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable. — Sebastian Junger

I suppose the Church would be perfect only if it were run by perfect beings. God is perfect, and His doctrine is pure. But He works through us - His imperfect children - and imperfect people make mistakes. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Matthew told to Eden what: she sneaked into my heart and went to work, chipping away, day in and day out, until she hollowed out a corner all for herself, and then, as if that wasn't enough, she went and carved her name on it. — Catherine Anderson

(The doorbell rang) ... I knew that Feely and Daffy would never condescend to respond to a bell ("So utterly Pavlovian," Feely said) ...
Keep warm feet and a cool head, and you'll never find yourself sneezing in bed. — Alan Bradley

Writing analogies are as abundant as ants at a picnic. We love nothing better than a good analogy, a "life-is-like-this" on the page. I breathe and out pops another analogy. As of this moment, I am sole owner of 1,643 analogies. — Chila Woychik

And all was well. — Cornelia Funke