Ragbag Downloads Quotes & Sayings

Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one. — William Strunk Jr.

Many people want God to call them to a big assignment. However, they try to bypass the love relationship ... the love relationship is why God created you. That is far more important to Him than what you do. So anticipate that God will start working with you and drawing you to an intimate love relationship that is real and personal. When the love relationship is right, God will be free to begin giving you assignments at His initiative. Whenever you do not seem to be receiving assignments from God, focus on the love relationship and stay there until the assignment comes. — Henry T. Blackaby

It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it. — T. S. Eliot

My apologies. I meant no offense." Except that his tone told her he didn't mean a word he'd just spoken. — Jean Oram

Most of the people who come into slavery today, the people who enter into slavery for the first time in the present moment, are not captured, they're not knocked over the head, it doesn't follow the old sorts of mechanisms. — Kevin Bales

I feel as good now as I have any other spring training, — Roy Halladay

This Guph was really a clever rascal, and it seems a pity he was so bad, for in a good cause he might have accomplished much. — L. Frank Baum

In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you're always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at work. The story line or plot in nonfiction consists of the twists and turns of a thought process working itself out. — Phillip Lopate

All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock. — Cy Young

The Great Pyramid was a fractal resonator for the entire Earth. It is designed according to the proportions of the cosmic temple, the natural pattern that blends the two fundamental principles of creation. The pyramid has golden ratio, pi, the base of natural logarithms, the precise length of the year and the dimensions of the Earth built into its geometry. It demonstrates.... As John Michell has pointed out in his wonderful little book, City of Revelation, 'Above all, the Great Pyramid is a monument to the art of 'squaring the circle'. — Alison Charlotte Primrose

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy. — Benjamin Disraeli