Propendency Quotes & Sayings

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph. — Paul Valery

What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text, in the face and behaviour of children, babes, and even brutes! That divided and rebel mind, that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, these have not. Their mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered, and when we look in their faces, we are disconcerted. Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it. So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no less with its own piquancy and charm, and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. Do not think the youth has no force, because he cannot speak to you and me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep. — Conrad Aiken

The Christian church was designed to make sinners sweat. I have always believed that, and I still believe it. The messages preached in our churches should make backslidden Christians sweat. And if I achieve that objective when I preach, I thank God with all of my heart, no matter what people think of me. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Love is Misunderstanding with Attraction Between Two Body — Various

...it was an old saying: three could keep a secret if but two of them lay in their graves... — Marion Zimmer Bradley

I'll try to be around and about. But if I'm not, then you know that I'm behind your eyelids, and I'll meet you there — Terence McKenna

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer. — David Guterson

When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats. — Claude A. Swanson

It was all terrible and tiring and meaningless. — Edna O'Brien

The only relationship we can have in this life is the relationship we have with ourselves. We cannot love anybody more than we love ourselves. We cannot treat anyone any better than we treat ourselves. When you forget you, give up on you, or devalue yourself, anyone coming into your life has a universal responsibility to follow your lead. — Iyanla Vanzant

My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general. — Mignon McLaughlin

Men's best successes come after their disappointments. — Henry Ward Beecher

Be not afraid. A kind life, a life of spirit, is fundamentally a life of courage-the courage simply to bring what you have, to bring who you are. — Wayne Muller