Peaceably Gather Quotes & Sayings

Best of wives and best of women. — Alexander Hamilton

One of the greatest concerns that I had when I became President was the vast array of nuclear weapons in the arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union and a few other countries, and also the great proliferation of conventional weapons, non-nuclear weapons, particularly as a tremendous burden on the economies of developing or very poor countries. — Jimmy Carter

People like you and me, we have too many nerves and not enough skin. That's the issue. Too many nerves. Not enough skin. We feel things straight to our bones. We're radar dishes. We take in everything and we feel everything. We feel pain that doesn't even belong to us. We are the animal shelter of feelings. We rescue everything. — Suanne Laqueur

Your prospects or customers wants to buy, but they don't want to be sold — Timi Nadela

You are TSTL. I beg your pardon. Too stupid to live. — Susan Wiggs

The call of God creates sight in us. It's the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word. — John Piper

A good friendship is a conversation that never ends. — Gloria Steinem

I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

... man by nature is not a wild or unsocial creature, neither was he born so, but makes himself what he naturally is not, by vicious habit; and that again on the other side, he is civilized and grows gentle by a change of place, occupation, and manner of life, as beasts themselves that are wild by nature, become tame and tractable by housing and gentler usage... — Plutarch

I've also found that at the bottom of all of these qualities is love. If you have enough love you have enough courage, enough love then you have patience. — Dorothy Maclean

Yet, it had been Dimitri's gentleness and thoughtfulness mixed with that deadliness that made him so wonderful. The same hands that wielded stakes with such precision would carefully brush the hair out of my face. The eyes that could astutely spot any danger in the area would regard me wonderingly and worshipfully, like I was the most beautiful and amazing woman in the world. — Richelle Mead

If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine; if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition; if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine. — Henry Thomas Buckle

You can know an animal - or a person, for that matter - in an instant, really, though your understanding can go on unfolding for years. — Mark Doty

The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager to please (remember those ethics of passivity!). She's never a woman of color. SHe's never a low-income girl or a fat girl. She's never disabled. "Virgin" is a designation for those who meet a certain standard of what women, especially young women, are supposed to look like. As for how these young women are supposed to act? A blank slate is best. — Jessica Valenti

I was snorting a lot of cocaine and I had lost myself to a great degree. A lot of people, everybody was starting to realize what the coke was all about and they were all starting to get lost. — George Jung