Presents And Xmas Quotes & Sayings

They sat far apart
deliberately, to experience, daily,
the sweetness of seeing each other across
great distance. — Louise Gluck

My father told me about American democracy. And he said you have to be actively engaged in the political process to make our democracy work. So I've been doing that my entire life. Civil rights movement. The peace movement during the Vietnam conflict. The movement to get an apology and redress for Japanese-Americans. — George Takei

Believing in the sovereignty of God injects courage in the act of desire. — Jen Pollock Michel

What is made of water and fire
for isn't that what a man whose nature opposes his responsibilities can be said to be? Does one quench the other, or do they combine to ignite the depths of the soul? — Alice Hoffman

Politics were so very simple, the Cardinal thought, just so long as a man believed no one, double-crossed everyone, kept a full treasury, and inveigled others into doing the dirty work. — Bernard Cornwell

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph. — Henry Miller

The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does. — Honore De Balzac

While the Christian faith clearly teaches that believers are to be involved as good citizens in the state, nevertheless, it is obvious why so many secularists are addicted to politics because political power is a surrogate for a Higher Power. — J.P. Moreland

The main problem in a person's life is never his suffering; it's his sin. — Timothy J. Keller

In fact, if you're wondering if I expect miracles
the answer is yes. Even when they don't seem to happen, I keep believing in them. Even when I stop believing in them, I'll always start again. Because if you don't have hope, what's left? I believe. And maybe they'll happen in a way I never saw coming
they usually do. Or maybe I'll find the way to make them happen myself. But ether way
I expect miracles. — Jennifer DeLucy

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth. — Oliver Reed

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all. — Max Beerbohm

True in eighth grade, when Gracie was in first grade. — Danielle Steel