Rodale Books Quotes & Sayings

Going to church doesn't change anything - Jesus does, and he works through his Word and his people. — J.A. Medders

Stretch your goals ... In other words, think big and think far off. — Sara Genn

People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction. — T. S. Eliot

A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by? ... — Thomas Carlyle

Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, but theory in and of itself is not prescriptive. — Paul Fry

Ah, bribery." He grinned at his niece. "is there anything it can't do? — Gina Damico

It was like one of those dreams at high school when everyone else has clothes on except you. — Tom Ford

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. — Smedley Butler

The pageant of life is divided into ying and yang. They're two circles. You can follow either circle and manage to develop enough speed to move beyond this world to other worlds, dimensional realities. — Frederick Lenz

Then she smiled that subtle, mysterious Mona Lisa smile of hers that tilted the corners of her lush mouth and caused the tiny lines at the corners of her eyes to crease, where that bastard mortality had stroked her velvet skin with skeletal fingers and carved his mark on her before she had kicked him in the balls. — Thea Harrison

I'd love to do 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' again - especially on Broadway. — Megan Hilty

If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda ... a work shouldn't be dismissed simply because of the strong convictions of the writer. Should we discount the facticity or reliability of the accounts of Nazi concentration camp survivors simply because they passionately recount their story? — Paul Copan

Finding the real joy of Christmas comes not in the hurrying and the scurrying to get more done, nor is it found in the purchasing of gifts. We find real joy when we make the Savior the focus of the season. — Thomas S. Monson