Portenga Mona Quotes & Sayings

How do you get from, "We do not know whether this is protectable human life," to "Therefore, we will not protect it?" Wouldn't the logic just as likely (some would say far more likely) be, "Since we do not know whether this is protectable human life, therefore we will protect it?" Why does the judicial uncertainty about the humanity of the unborn lead to unbridled license to destroy it? — John Piper

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others. — Thomas More

An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937. — Philip Warren Anderson

It was a practical trip, straight across the country. No pit stops at canned meat museums, no national parks. Just a whole lot of Wynebraskowa. — Kari Martindale

Better than cancer or Alzheimer's, that prime horror of anyone who has spent his life making a living by his wits. — Stephen King

Music is emotional. Your job is to make people feel something. The best way to do that is to sing and speak from something they've personally been through. That's where I write from. — Sevyn Streeter

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. — Elizabeth Bowen

I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge. — Anne Hutchinson

All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out - in prose, or painting or poetry or music; speaking out - in homes and halls, streets and farms, courts and cafes - let that voice speak and the stillness you hear will be the gratitude of mankind. — Robert Kennedy

I tend to do yoga before I go on stage, so that keeps me nice and calm. — Neve McIntosh

He was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American - that comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work in youth and, even more, with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I have to force myself even to move my eyeballs. It's so easy just to stare. — Flora Rheta Schreiber

Inspiration is an inner string which must be tuned often in order to play it. — Debasish Mridha

Grace equals ability. God gives us grace to match our call. When we do our own thing, we do it on our own. When we follow His leading, He always supplies the grace and the energy to do what He's calling us to do. — Joyce Meyer

Once the rain starts falling it's hard to tell it to stop ... — Samantha Young