Paperweight Glass Quotes & Sayings

Before asking God's forgiveness there is something important you must do. You must repent, that is, turn from the behavior and lifestyle that [leads to sin]. — Billy Graham

What's the use? The people are too stupid. They do not understand. — Winslow Homer

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight. — Donald Hall

I come here to read. Dream. Relax. Find bits and pieces of myself I'm afraid I may not find elsewhere... — Scott Hildreth

Be pleased with your real garden, don't persue the perfection of a picture. What you see in a photo lasted only as long as the shutter snap. — Janet Macunovich

He lay back with his eyes shut, still sodden in the atmosphere of the dream. It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain. It had all occurred inside the glass paperweight, but the surface of the glass was the dome of the sky, and inside the dome everything was flooded with clear soft light in which one could see into interminable distances. — George Orwell

Mendeleyev was said to have modelled the table on the card game solitaire. — Bill Bryson

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure. — Winston Churchill

He threw all his affection at them and hoped that some of it would stick, maybe even come back to him, though if it didn't he gave it anyway; he gave it more, even, because everyone had something that needed to come out. — Matthew Thomas

There is no answer to Auschwitz ... To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair, to sense a ray of God's radiance in the jungles of history. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Trust me, high school ends. You graduate and get away from all the people you never want to see again-it's all good. — Chad Michael Murray