Pressley Harvin Quotes & Sayings

Reading a book about something can be an obstacle to doing it because it gives you the impression that you are doing what you are only thinking about doing. It is tempting to remain in the comfortable theater of our imagination instead of the real world, to fall in love with the idea of becoming a saint and loving God and neighbor instead of doing the actual work, because the idea makes no demands on you. It is like a book on a shelf. But, as Dostoyevsky says, 'love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams' (The Brothers Karamazov). — Peter Kreeft

But we have turned that, what you call sexual activity, which is biological in its nature, into a pleasure movement. There must be two, you know. I love somebody and somebody else loves me. Wherever there is division, there can't be love. We are trying to bridge this gap, which is horrible for us, which has no meaning, which is demanding something from us, with this fancy idea that there must be love between these two individuals. — U.G. Krishnamurti

He leaned down and his breath feathered across her forehead, then down to her ear where he spoke in a coaxing voice. I can make you talk, baby. Is that what you want? If you need my hand between your legs, all you have to do is ask me. — Tessa Bailey

The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about. — Jack Hanna

I just love to sing, so like my dad's advice when I was younger - anytime you get a chance to sing, just go out there and do it! I truly just love the actual singing. — Lauren Hart

Jesus Christ, in His infinite love, has become what we are, in order that He may make us entirely what He is. — Irenaeus Of Lyons

Get rid of words, and get rid of meaning, and still there is poetry. — Yang Wanli

In most couples there is the person who wins and the person who doesn't. The winner isn't necessarily stronger or smarter or righter. The winner is the person who won't give up, and the non-winner ("loser" is not the correct word for the person who does not win), at a certain point, realizes the battle is a silly one, and the spoils are not worth the extended warfare. — Heidi Julavits

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning. — Leon Kass

but look at it this way: If you've got the ugliest house on the street, you never have to look at it. — Dave Eggers

In real life, I'm always in tracksuits, and I never wear makeup. — Teresa Palmer

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Do not wish your life away, " Grandfather would tell her. "None of us know the number of days we are allotted. It would be foolish to discard any of them. — Tracie Peterson

If globalization seeks to bring all of us together, but to do so respecting each person, each individual person's peculiarity, that globalization is good and makes us good and grow and leads to peace. — Pope Francis

Unlike Hezbollah, Israel's more modest aim is to survive, and that it has done. — Mark Helprin