Positive Fishermen Quotes & Sayings

Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me. — Simon Callow

I must ration my tendons when people near me. — Sean Kilpatrick

One cannot get through life without pain ... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us. — Bernie Siegel

I don't know," [my father] said, after clearing his throat. "But I know that he loves you." ... Twenty years later, I'm convinced it is the most important thing my father ever told me ... I used to think that the measure of true faith is certainty. Doubt, ambiguity, nuance, uncertainty - these represented a lack of conviction, a dangerous weakness in the armor of the Christian soldier who should "always be ready with an answer." ... Doubt is a difficult animal to master because it requires that we learn the difference between doubting God and doubting what we believe about God. The former has the potential to destroy faith; the latter has the power to enrich and refine it. — Rachel Held Evans

A set of huge marble busts stared smugly down from on high: great merchants and financiers of Styrian history, by the look of them. Criminals made heroes by colossal success. — Joe Abercrombie

Rebecca, death don't take pot shots, then say, 'Oh, shit, I missed and got the wrong fella! — Catherine Anderson

A positive attitude and an open mind are true characteristics of all good fishermen — Kevin VanDam

But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding. — Jane Addams

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins. — Honore De Balzac

Maxine wouldn't appreciate a visit from a succubus, especially one being tracked by a detective. But I didn't have a choice. I needed help. Even if that meant getting help from a nun.

J.M. Friedman. Succubus in Seattle (Kindle Locations 193-194). — J.R. Thorn

One sure test of social privilege is how much anger you get to express without the threat of expulsion, arrest, or social exclusion, — Laurie Penny

It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me. — Ednita Nazario

Life's best adventures are as close as your nearest bookshelf. Tour Europe with the Count of Monte Cristo. Dance a ball with Mr Darcy. Hunt down bad guys with Stephanie Plum. Amazing things can happen when you read. — Ally Carter

It's relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don't really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven. But why is it important? After all, fiction can be dangerously misleading or distracting. People who go to the forest looking for fairies and unicorns would seem to have less chance of survival than people who go looking for mushrooms and deer. And if you spend hours praying to non-existing guardian spirits, aren't you wasting precious time, time better spent foraging, fighting and fornicating? — Yuval Noah Harari