Rena's Promise Quotes & Sayings

In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the mind, those vain specters that are our errors and our lies always appear before us to seduce us; they attack us even in our fasting or our mortifications, in other words, in our very strength. — Montesquieu

What good is it if you read Plato and never clean your toilet? asked my mother, reverting to the values of Jubilee. — Alice Munro

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it. — Robert E.Lee

Anybody can do their best, but we are helped by the Spirit of God to do better than our best. — Catherine Bramwell-Booth

It's ok if you want to stop fighting. — Gayle Forman

The law is so complex and voluminous
that no one, not even the most knowledgeable lawyer, can understand it
all. Moreover, lawyers and legal scholars have not gone out of their way
to make the law accessible to the ordinary person. Just the opposite: Legal
professionals, like the priests of some obscure religion, too often try to
keep the law mysterious and inaccessible. — Jay M. Feinman

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing. — William Wordsworth

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible. — Cate Blanchett

You cannot expect to make an action movie without getting bruises. — Stephanie Sigman

Die, the queen thought at it, in irritation, fly into the flame and be done with it. — George R R Martin