Pernoud Denver Quotes & Sayings

We must become resolute in trusting the promises of God and believing Scriptures like Isaiah 54:17 which promises, "No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from Me," says the Lord." The next time Satan does something to try to undermine your faith - what will you choose? Will you choose to fall for his deceptive tricks or will you make the conscious decision to THINK YOURSELF HAPPY? — Michael Vidaurri

The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. — John Taylor Gatto

Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be. — Joyce Carol Oates

I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs. — Joni Mitchell

I like my male characters as much my female characters, but I always seem to have less for them to say. — John Allison

carrying laborer to teacher and manager. It seems a bittersweet result of the family's loss that the remaining children had managed to lift themselves out of poverty. — Saroo Brierley

This suggests that for our species, too, the cerebellum is critically important.63 — Frans De Waal

O world, why do you wish to persecute me? How do I offend you, when I intend only to fix beauty in my intellect, & never my intellect fix on beauty?
I do not set store by treasures or riches; & therefore it always brings me more joy only to fix riches in my intellect, & never my intellect fix on riches.
I do not set store by a lovely face that, vanquished, is civil plunder of the ages, & perfidious wealth has never pleased me,
for I deem it best, as one of my truths, to deplete the vanities of this life & never this life to deplete in vanities. — Juana Ines De La Cruz

Check out the magic crap." He shot me a look. "Oh, is that what we're supposed to be doing? Because I've just been drawing hearts and our initials in the dirt. — Rachel Hawkins

As Martin Luther King Jr. prophesied, "I believe what the self-centered have torn down, the other-centered will build up. — Mark Nepo

Just "being a man" is something I can't take for granted, since I was not born a man. But you know what? It turns out nobody else is born a man either. Sure, roughly half of us humans are born male - but only a fraction of that fraction grow into men. — T. Cooper