Rev Bill Owens Quotes & Sayings

Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure. — Martha Beck

Harry [Styles] is like a younger brother. We do exercises together then he asks me to prepare a sandwich for the effort. — Liam Payne

It is the little act of kindness that touches our heart and blossom our life with gladness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As we strive to better understand how Jesus sees us and contemplate our own attempts to live as the Redeemer would have us live, let us remember his instructing observations and their universal applications in literally all that we do: "If ye love me, keep my commandments." (John 14:15) and "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." — Cecil O. Samuelson

A knife is only as good as the one who wields it. — Patrick Ness

Eric raised a questioning brow.

"Okay. Then I have to head back to town. Stop talking to me. I have to forget you're here."

"That seems a little rude."

"You're a ghost. Rudeness doesn't figure in. — J.J. Cook

The city was a vast and stationary carousel, forever boarded by millions of would-be passengers who took their seats, waited and then dismounted. — J.G. Ballard

It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one. — Howard Hodgkin

I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things. — Luis Gonzalez

I have been running all about; I have knocked again at all the doors of my youth and desired to enter in there; I thought, surely it must admit me again, for I am still young and have wished so much to forget; but it fled always before me like a will-o'-the-wisp; it fell away without a sound; it crumbled like tinder at my lightest touch. And I could not understand.
Surely here at least something of it must remain? I attempted it again and again, and as a result made myself merely ridiculous and wretched. But now I know. I know now that a still, silent war has ravaged this country of my memories also; I know now it would be useless for me to look farther. Time lies between like a great gulf; I cannot get back. There is nothing for it; I must go forward, march onward, anywhere; it matters nothing, for I have no goal — Erich Maria Remarque

All of us have times when we think we are ugly,but all.of us have a unique beauty others do not have. — Sandara Park

If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be. — Warren Spector

One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense. — Joan Didion

Why did we not know that heads of state were being eavesdropped on, spied on? We are the intelligence committee and we didn't know that. — Jan Schakowsky

Holiness will be found in "all things," not just in what we think is sacred. — Ray Harris