Patellas Crossword Quotes & Sayings

You say the gentleman I knew has been replaced. How I wish I could offer better comfort than to say that no matter how you have changed, you wil be welcomed when you return. Do what you must. If it helps you to endure, put the feelings away for now, and lock the door. Perhaps someday we'll air them out together. — Lisa Kleypas

Taking care of the elderly comes without the vast literature of advice and encouragement that accompanies other kinds of commitments, notably romantic love and childbearing. It sneaks up on you as something that is not supposed to happen, or rather you crash into this condition that you have not been warned about, a rocky coast not on the map. In the preferred stories the last years of life are golden and the old all ripen into wisdom, not decay into diseases that mimic mental illness and roll backward into chaotic childhood and beyond. — Rebecca Solnit

The Bible warns us clearly that we must not attack men of God no matter how sinful they may have become or wicked in our eyes. — Benny Hinn

Mamma, don't you see -- you shouldn't hit me. He shouldn't hit me. You shouldn't hit me about God, Mamma. You should never hit anybody about God . . . . — Philip Roth

One cannot divide one's life between an actual relationship to God and an inactual I-It relationship to the world - praying to God in truth and utilizing the world. Whoever knows the world as something to be utilized knows God the same way. His prayers are a way of unburdening himself - and fall into the ears of the void. — Martin Buber

The girl you were died; the potion of death was what all of us women swallow sooner or later. Have you noticed how at puberty the Amazon-like energy we are born with fades and we turn into doubt-filled creatures with clipped wings? The woman left trapped in the silo is also you, a prisoner of the restrictions of adult life. The female condition is a disgrace, Isabel, it's like having rocks tied to your ankles so you can't fly. — Isabel Allende

It held an eye to the future and a tongue to the past. — Matthew Skelton

I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want. — Macaulay Culkin

the pursuit of experience is the refuge of the unimaginative. — Hubert Crackanthorpe

The conduct of some professed Christians is so lacking in kindness and courtesy that their good is evil spoken of. — Ellen G. White

For a few glorious moments, all his problems seemed to recede into nothing, insignificant in the vast, starry sky. — J.K. Rowling

The basic reality is that the risks that scare people and the risks that kill people are very different. — Peter Sandman

A closed mouth gathers no feet. — Barry Epstein

My feelings tried to control me on my run. I had to concentrate fully on forthcoming running and success. I wanted to triumph. — Cathy Freeman

You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great. — Les Brown