Pletal Quotes & Sayings

It was the strangest feeling, to be convicted but not condemned. God had torn him down but then had slowly built him back up. He had crushed him and then restored him. The more honest Clay became, the more God revealed to him the condition of his heart - a heart born into darkness, a heart that had trusted in the ways of the world. — Rene Gutteridge

Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He left me his ring. I never take it off. Now, when I go to Sicily, I don't need a passport. I just flash my ring. — Quincy Jones

The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity. — Calvin Coolidge

My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision. — Walt Whitman

The real difference between love and war, somebody usually wons at the end of the war. — Matt Trevitz

The best piece of advice I've ever been given was, 'Be in the business you're in.' Don't just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business you're in. — Ray Stevenson

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. — Edmund Burke

Successful leaders all share one common trait - they believe that they can do a better job than the alternatives. Humility is fine when considering your responsibility and duty, but when it comes time to make a decision, you must not question yourself. — Brandon Sanderson

The foundation of our love for the Lord lies in the recognition of His holiness, our sinfulness, and His grace. — Sinclair B. Ferguson

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background. — T.D. Jakes

Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together. — Maureen Johnson

Olive oil is a bang for your buck oil. — Vinnie Tortorich

The transitional nature of the 1920's can also be discerned in what may be labeled a new kind of 'dvoeverie' (or dual faith), a syncretistic belief that combined peasant ways and new Communist practices in tentative and uneasy assimilation. For example, there were reports of portraits of Lenin or Kalinin turning up in icon corners and of habit-ridden old peasants crossing themselves in front of these holy images. — Lynne Viola

I did that girly little sighing thing you do when you can't handle all the sweetness anymore and bit my lip. — Shelly Crane