Pennells Garden Quotes & Sayings

Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle, but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront. — Stephen Leacock

Start each day with thoughts of gratitude and you will attract the power of love. — Debasish Mridha

Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward. — James Russell Lowell

Love is for life; life is for love. — Debasish Mridha

Schumpeter remarked how pleased he was with the Russian Revolution. Socialism was now no longer a discussion on paper, but had to prove its viability. Max Weber responded in great agitation: Communism, at this stage in Russian development, was virtually a crime, the road would lead over unparalleled human misery and end in a terrible catastrophe. "Quite likely", Schumpeter answered, "but what a fine laboratory". "A laboratory filled with mounds of corpses", Weber answered heatedly. — Karl Jaspers

I say this idea of chokin' folks to death to reform 'em, is where we show the savage in us, which we have brought down from our barbarious ancestors. We have left off the war paint and war whoops, and we shall leave off the hangin' when we get civilized. — Marietta Holley

It is not such a thing, is it - to die for your friends. — Sarah J. Maas

When it comes to locations, I'm one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I trust myself to recreate it for my readers. Having said that, visiting a locked-down pediatric psych ward was the most intimidating research I've ever done - and I've visited maximum security prisons, shooting galleries, bone collections, etc. — Lisa Gardner

But he does not enter into temptation if he conquers his evil concupiscence by good will. And yet the determination of the human will is insufficient, unless the Lord grant it victory in answer to prayer that it enter not into temptation. What, indeed, affords clearer evidence of the grace of God than the acceptance of prayer in any petition? — Augustine Of Hippo

Not everything in church is truth ... And not all truth turns up in church. — Faith Sullivan

She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks. — Sherman Alexie

Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the electoral process not only has an immediate effect, but has an effect for years and years. — Howard Rheingold

Some guys just slip under the radar. — Victor Cruz

Even paradise had its serpent. — Alexandra Ivy

Awareness without emotion is a flame without fuel. — John C. Norcross