Praestolari Quotes & Sayings

Oh Lord, I thank Thee that I can bring these people Thy Word. But Lord, there are other villages back in the jungle where no white man has gone. They need Jesus, too. Help me reach them! — Mary Slessor

Become a good noticer. Pay attention to the feelings, hunches, and intuitions that flood your life each day. If you do, you will see that premonitions are not rare, but a natural part of our lives. — Larry Dossey

The dog appeals to cheap and facile emotions; the cat to the deepest founts of imagination and cosmic perception in the human mind. It is no accident that the contemplative Egyptians, together with such later poetic spirits as Poe, Gautier, Baudelaire, and Swinburne, were all sincere worshippers of the supple grimalkin. — H.P. Lovecraft

When you're selling a product or service, you don't have - it doesn't have to be absolutely perfect, although I've provided language that is. When you're a politician, one wrong word changes the entire - changes the meaning of something. — Frank Luntz

In general, though, one should never forget the role money plays in shaping the writer's life, and the life inevitably informs the work. My own position is that I always want to convince a publisher to give me adequate money for what I want to do. At the same time, what I want to do is to arrive at full expression in a way that seduces, that pleases people in a way they didn't expect to be pleased, or even want to be pleased. — Tim Parks

Don't forget to turn your clocks back today if you don't want your clocks to be set to the right time. — Demetri Martin

You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues. — Ayn Rand

I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working ... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power. — Scott Kahn

Isn't it obvious, Dad? Rafe's in love, Rachel said in a singsong voice. — Melody Anne

Bonum est praestolari cum silentio salutare Dei. ("It is good to wait in silence for the salvation of God.") — Thomas Merton

I love you." I try to hold his gaze with all the honesty and strength that I can muster. "Touch me now. Hold me now. Love me. Let yourself love me. I'm scared too."
- Regina Wylde — Katy Evans

It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures. — John Stott

If I hear dance music, my body starts to move. Whatever the dance music is, I can't help it. With all that, I still felt, well, rock is a little higher art, but it wasn't. Right now, because I have so much experience with dance charts, I started to realize that it's incredible art. This is going to be known one day as high art. — Yoko Ono