Poyou Quotes & Sayings

For a long time, I tried to make my ilfe work, to make our family work. I got tired, though. Five children wears you out until the only thing left inside you, the only thing you've got to give, is a memory of what you thought you'd be. — Amy Franklin-Willis

The evangelists today are very often prepared to be anything to anybody as long as they can get somebody to the altar for something. They glibly call out: 'Who wants help? Who wants more power? Who wants a closer walk with God?' Such a sinning, repenting 'easy believeism' dishonors the blood and prostitutes the altar. We must alter the altar, for the altar is a place to die on. Let those who will not pay this price leave it alone! — Leonard Ravenhill

Pure truth no man has seen, nor ever shall know. — Xenophanes

Classifying and judging people promotes violence. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two. — Harry Connick Jr.

With her grace and grit, and the will to lead change, Misty Copeland is truly a ballerina for our time. — Heather Watts

John had once said to me, in a complaining tone, that Father had taught us to be afraid of no man except him. And it was true. Father always insisted that we think for ourselves in every way, except when we disagreed with him, and that we hold ourselves independent of every man's will, except his. He wanted us simultaneously to be independent and yet to serve him. Father was to be our Abraham; we were to be his little Isaacs. We were supposed to know ahead of time, however, the happy outcome of the story - we were supposed to know that it was a story, not about us and our willingness to lie on a rock on Mount Moriah and be sacrificed under his knife, but about our father and his willingness to obey his terrible God. — Russell Banks

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer. — Hugh Kingsmill

Although the problem of transmuting chemical elements into each other is much older than a satisfactory definition of the very concept of chemical element, it is well known that the first and most important step towards its solution was made only nineteen years ago by the late Lord Rutherford, who started the method of the nuclear bombardments. — Enrico Fermi

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. — Agatha Christie

I didn't completely forget how to be nice or feminine because I have a career. — Mindy Kaling