People Thermometers Quotes & Sayings

To know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother. — Elizabeth Goudge

The Silver Key:
I.
In the first days
of his bondage
he had turned
to the gentle churchly
faith endeared to him
by the naive
trust of his fathers,
for thence stretched
mystic avenues
which seemed to promise
escape from life.
II.

Only on closer view
did he mark the starved
fancy and beauty, the
stale and prosy
triteness, and the
owlish gravity
and grotesque
claims of solid truth
which reigned bore somely
and overwhelmingly
among most
of its professors;
or feel
to the full
the awkwardness
with which
it sought to keep
alive as literal
fact the outgrown
fears and guesses
of a primal
race confronting — H.P. Lovecraft

Grief is a form of validation; it says the wound mattered. It mattered. You mattered. That's not the way life was supposed to go. — John Eldredge

His body forced itself into a comma as a result of the trauma. The — Cindy Patterson

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there. — George Orwell

Frankly, I've come to feel that there are two kinds of people: those who act like thermometers and those who act like thermostats. — Arlene Francis

I want my work to create space where people can meet God, rather than give them something they can "apply" to their daily life. — Henri Nouwen

Children and dogs are the messengers of God some of us do not deserve them — Ginnetta Correli

In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way. Life — Terry Pratchett

The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor and style. — Maya Angelou

It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement. — Yitzhak Rabin

If you truly want LOVE to enter your Heart, you HAVE to give a DAMN about what's going on around you!! — AainaA-Ridtz

You know that when Irving puts the dog in the car, it is no longer in the yard. When Edna goes to church, her head goes with her. If Doug is in the house, he must have gone through some opening unless he was born there and never left. If Sheila is alive at 9 A.M. and is alive at 5 P.M., she was also alive at noon. Zebras in the wild never wear underwear. Opening a jar of a new brand of peanut butter will not vaporize the house. People never shove meat thermometers in their ears. A gerbil is smaller than Mt. Kilimanjaro. — Steven Pinker