Raeburn Fairweather Quotes & Sayings

It was not instability of character but versatility of mind which caused him to undertake many things that having commenced he afterwards abandoned, and the probability is that as soon as he saw exactly how he could solve any difficulty which presented itself, he put on one side the merely perfunctory execution of such a task. — Maurice Walter Brockwell

Anger and humour are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. — James H. Cone

To "seek inspiration" has always seemed to me a ridiculous and absurd fancy: inspiration cannot be sought out; it must find the poet. For — Alexander Pushkin

At the very least i should fear you. some would say that I should hate you."
"Many would say that."
"Yet i neither fear nor hate you."
"You-you are comforting me. Giving me sanctuary. Why, Grandma?" Aurox asked.
"Because I believe in the power of love. I believe in chosing Light over Darkness-happiness over hatred-trust over skeptism, — P.C. Cast

It's all too easy to turn the fight of faith into sanctification-by-checklist. Take care of a few bad habits, develop a couple good ones, and you're set. But a moral checklist doesn't take into consideration the idols of the hearts. It may not even have the gospel as part of the equation. And inevitably, checklist spirituality is highly selective. So you end up feeling successful at sanctification because you stayed away from drugs, lost weight, served at the soup kitchen, and renounced Styrofoam. But you've ignored gentleness, humility, joy, and sexual purity. — Kevin DeYoung

For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've sort of turned over a stone that hasn't been turned over. — Mary Roach

I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live. — Vikram Seth

So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything? — Ted Nelson

What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy. — Edward Carpenter

Not every statement by a scientist is a statement of science. — John Lennox

Winning becomes easier over time as the cornerstones of confidence become habits. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Sorry' doesn't mean anything when you can't promise not to do it again — Michelle Hodkin

the pain that underlies all pain: the pain that we are all, as Rilke phrases it, "unutterably alone. — Julia Cameron

To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you ... a truth ... that used to elude you. — Norman Mailer

Me, my niggas and some Madonna hoes that look just like virgins but trust they down to go. — Drake