Quiltmaking Essentials Quotes & Sayings

Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them. — Jerome Groopman

He hated when his own advice applied to himself. — Rick Riordan

and you taste / of the memory of god abandoned. — Mikl Paul

A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID. — Stephen King

The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical. — Murray Walker

God has been described by all the scriptures of the world as protector and saviour of the sinner. — Mahatma Gandhi

Love has a timeframe all of its own and love never dies. It is eternal. There is no end. There is no rush. There is no hurrying it. It waits patiently. It waits because it knows that there is no end and that like the sea it comes and goes. — Kate McGahan

G. K. Chesterton said that his goal in life was to take nothing for granted - not a sunrise, not a smile, not a flower, nothing. That is a truly wonderful approach to life. Don't take anything for granted. Truly appreciate every minute that you have to live. My near-death experience has helped me be better at that. If I hadn't almost died, I wouldn't have figured out how to live. — Mark Batterson

The gods did not desire flawless souls, but great ones. I think that very darkness is where the greatness grows from, as flowers from the soil. I am not sure, in fact, if greatness can bloom without it. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Pushing magic toward the candle, I willed it to light. Nothing happened.
Irys made a strangled sound and the candle burned. "Are you directing your magic to the candle?"
"Yes. Why?"
"You just ordered me to light the candle for you," Irys said in exasperation. "And I did it. — Maria V. Snyder

The problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions. — Edsger Dijkstra

The study of the properties of numbers, Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us above the material universe. He would have his disciples apply themselves to this study, not that they may be able to buy or sell, not that they may qualify themselves to be shopkeepers or travelling merchants, but that they may learn to withdraw their minds from the ever-shifting spectacle of this visible and tangible world, and to fix them on the immutable essences of things. — Thomas B. Macaulay

If it weren't for Phoenician blinds, it'd be curtains for all of us. — Tom Robbins

We'll have a sauna first."
"Oh,will we?"
"Yeah." He hooked a hand in the waistband of her trousers and drew her closer. "Open the pores a bit." In a quick move, he unhooked them, then drew them over her hips.
"Since you insist." Shelby began undoing his tie. "Have you noticed, Senator, that most of the time you wear a great many more clothes than I?"
"As a matter of fact ... " He slipped his hands under her blouse and found her. "I have. — Nora Roberts

Even though you're a member of the wrong party, you've got some great ideas ... — Lynn Westmoreland