Palings Of A Fence Quotes & Sayings

The fountain of Bethesda will flow again. And I told him I would personally take him there to bathe. We will all bathe ourselves clean. — Tony Kushner

Am I learning how to use my Bible? The way to become complete for the Master's service is to be well soaked in the Bible; some of us only exploit certain passages. Our Lord wants to give us continuous instruction out of His word; continuous instruction turns hearers into disciples. — Oswald Chambers

In a country like Iraq with its culture of blood feuds - is that the more locals are killed, the more motivation there is for the insurgency, for the insurgents the more feelings of revenge there are, and in the end the more the operational security of the soldiers suffers, because any soldier who kills an infant today is grooming the killer of his mate tomorrow. — Yaroslav Trofimov

Men find powerful women so threatening, and finding a partner was starting to look laughable, because I would be really attracted to guys and they would just be so threatened and I didn't like feeling threatening, I didn't want to feel threatened, I didn't want to feel like I was towering over anybody. — Amanda Palmer

Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another? — Susan Abulhawa

With Will I sensed a vast internal hinterland, a world he wouldn't give me even a glimpse of. — Jojo Moyes

A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied. — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

From my earliest youth I have regarded the connection between Ireland and Great Britain as the curse of the Irish nation, and felt convinced, that while it lasted, this country would never be free or happy. In consequence, I determined to apply all the powers which my individual efforts could move, in order to separate the two countries. — Theobald Of Bec

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin. — Leonard Cohen

New York was bad enough. By nine in the morning the fake, country-wet freshness that somehow seeped in overnight evaporated like the tail end of a sweet dream. — Sylvia Plath

Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time. — Irin Carmon

Don't fall asleep in classes. It's such a lucky thing you have, to be taught and to be learning and not have to be working in a shop somewhere. — Mitch Albom

Too often we become so consumed with how we spend our days that we lose track of how we are spending our lives. — Sally Warner

Morning lost its healing powers when it arrived and found you already wide-eyed and wary. — Maggie Stiefvater

Time itself is a thing, so it seems to me, that stands solidly like a fence of iron palings with its endless row of years; and we flow past like Gyoll, on our way to a sea from which we shall return only as rain. — Gene Wolfe