Riseborough Mediation Quotes & Sayings

I am who I am and I am who I was, and I am who I will always be! — Emrys

Every sifting comes by divine command and permission. Satan must ask leave before he can lay a finger upon Job. Nay, more, in some sense our siftings are directly the work of heaven, for the text says, "I will sift the house of Israel." Satan, like a drudge, may hold the sieve, hoping to destroy the corn; but the overruling hand of the Master is accomplishing the purity of the grain by the very process which the enemy intended to be destructive. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open. — Henry Fielding

Maegwin de Romily woke with a headache on the morning of her execution. As she roused from frightening dreams she became aware of smells first: damp stone, rotting straw, an undercurrent of urine. — Elizabeth Baxter

Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money. — Martin Luther

At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity. — Rankin

My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true. — Derek Jeter

If that's the way the game is played, I don't want to play anymore. — Joyce DeWitt

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'. — Arthur C. Clarke

To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor. — Friedrich Nietzsche

One thing you cannot control is nature. — Diana Ross

Religious reverence for one's own job, even if the job is worth doing, is a sexual turnoff. — Nancy Kress

The harder you work, the luckier you are, and I worked like hell. — Gerald R. Ford

Live first, write second. — Miranda Paul