Palmbladbibliotheek Quotes & Sayings

She alluded to 12 Years a Slave. "There he was," she said, speaking of Solomon Northup. "He had means. He had a family. He was living like a human being. And one racist act took him back. And the same is true of me. I spent years developing a career, acquiring assets, engaging responsibilities. And one racist act. It's all it takes. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Can I trust God? Trust is an essential ingredient to surrender. You won't surrender to God unless you trust him, but you can't trust him until you know him better. Fear keeps us from surrendering, but love casts out all fear. The more you realize how much God loves you, the easier surrender becomes. — Rick Warren

So much of the theatrical can leave you with a yearning for the real. The real is suddenly and starkly there right at the city's edge and extends for thousands of square miles of desert and mountain and canyon with which human beings can do almost nothing profitable other than to leave it be and just look at it. — Timothy O'Grady

Truth needs not flowers of speech. — Alexander Pope

Let us serve Him faithfully as our Master. Let us obey Him loyally as our King. Let us study His teachings as our Prophet. Let us work diligently after Him as our Example. Let us look anxiously for Him as our coming redeemer of body as well as soul. But above all let us prize Him as our Sacrifice, and rest our whole weight on His death as atonement for sin. Let His blood be more precious in our eyes every year we live. Whatever else we glory in about Christ, let us glory above all things in His cross. — J.C. Ryle

Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action. — Frances Moore Lappe

In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in reality, do their feeble best for unrighteousness. Just as the upright politician should hold in peculiar scorn the man who makes the name of politician a reproach and a shame, so the genuine reformer should realize that the cause he champions is especially jeopardized by the mock reformer who does what he can to make reform a laughingstock among decent men. — Theodore Roosevelt

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton. — Calvin Coolidge

When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne. — Aubrey Plaza

Be my guest," she whispered through a tight smile. "If you'd rather be planning a wedding than a militia. — Anonymous

Buy less, choose well & do it yourself! — Vivienne Westwood

We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus. — Henry David Thoreau

Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and "ideas," and to plant their roots firmly in the earth. — William Vogt

What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite. — Epictetus

Throughout my career I have been pretty successful, I've played for some pretty big teams, represented my country quite a few times, and played for managers without sentiment. — David Beckham