Profound Excerpt Quotes & Sayings

She had a wild impulse to seize the stout, good-natured nun by the shoulders and shake her, crying: "Don't you know that I'm a human being, unhappy and alone, and I want comfort and sympathy and encouragement; oh, can't you turn a minute away from God and give me a little compassion; not the Christian compassion that you have for all suffering things, but just human compassion for me? — W. Somerset Maugham

Would join the Conservative Coalition in the state Legislature. About 60 percent of the Legislature are members or considered conservative, which my father was one of them. — Charles Capps

I wasn't even sure what to think of Marissa anymore either. — Tijan

Tanner: My dear Tavy, your pious English habit of regarding the world as a moral gymnasium built expressly to strengthen your character in leads you to think about your own confounded principles when you should be thinking about other people's necessities. — George Bernard Shaw

Fear, Sadness. They're not weaknesses. They are overpowering, defining emotions. They make you human, Sophie. — Fisher Amelie

Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down on score paper and still dreams it up in his ear first. — Phil Coulter

Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well. — Joan Of Arc

If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing. — Mahatma Gandhi

For God alone is our salvation; to know him is salvation. He is in us all the time, else we could never move to seek him. — George MacDonald