Paytons Quotes & Sayings

Like so many plain cups on the shelves. You can reach for them, use them without thinking. Most of them don't matter. Sometimes you lose your grip on one of them and it falls and smashes to piece, and you shrug and say to yourself, what a pity. Then you reach for the cup that you use every day, one that you love and use so often that as you stretch out your hand it is already making the shape that fits its curve. You are certain that yesterday it was in its proper place, but now there is nothing. Just air. You have lost something that was so familiar, so much a part of your life that you were not even looking for it. Just expecting it to be there, as always. — Rosie Thomas

In 1893, Miss M. Roalfe Cox brought together, in a volume of the Folk-Lore Society, no less than 345 variants of 'Cinderella' and kindred stories showing how widespread this particular formula was throughout Europe and how substantially identical the various incidents as reproduced in each particular country. — Joseph Jacobs

If we can accept the laws of the universe, the ebb and flow of joy and tragedy, then we have everything we need to embrace our true freedom. — Sarah Winman

Make everything about you say, "I'm confident, really confident. — David J. Schwartz

Even though it hurt, there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud. — Jodi Picoult

Not only is a book without conflict something no one wants to read, but a life without conflict is something where nothing is gained, nothing is earned, nothing is won. — A.C. Gaughen

I paid my bill. Save your fucking pennies for a gun and a history book ... — Vanessa Veselka

Well, for me, the real excitement of doing physical things in films, whether you're talking about a fight scene or a stunt sequence or even a love scene, for that matter, is by necessity it has to be choreographed very much like a dance. That being said, you have to rehearse it over and over again and find a mathematical precision. — Benjamin Bratt

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love. — John Calvin

We don't need any troops abroad-they don't help our defense. — Ron Paul

The call is not to be taken lightly. For a person to possess knowledge is not enough. He must be sure that he is properly called. Those who operate without a proper call seek no good purpose. God does not bless their labors. They may be good preachers, but they do no edify. Many of the fanatics of our day pronounce words of faith, but they bear no good fruit, because their purpose is to turn men to their perverse opinions. On the other hand, those who have a divine call must suffer a good deal of opposition in order that they may become fortified against the running attacks of the devil and the world. — Martin Luther

an overcast luminance, a subdued warmth — Janet Watts

Alice More: As for understanding, I understand that you are the best man that I ever met,
or am likely to;
And, if you go ... Well, God knows why I suppose.
Though as God's my witness God's kept deadly quiet about it! — Robert Bolt

On a human level, people want to see someone succeed who wants to change. — Danny McBride

You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist? — Franz Grillparzer