Roulstons Port Quotes & Sayings

What seems dangerous often is not - black snakes, for example, or clear-air turbulence. While things that just lie there, like this beach, are loaded with jeopardy. A yellow dust rising from the ground, the heat that ripens melons overnight - this is earthquake weather. You can sit here braiding the fringe on your towel and the sand will all of a sudden suck down like an hourglass. The air roars. In the cheap apartments onshore, bathtubs fill themselves and gardens roll up and over like green waves. If nothing happens, the dust will drift and the heat deepen till fear turns to desire. Nerves like that are only bought off by catastrophe. — Amy Hempel

More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense, the necessary mandate of survival that we shall love all our neighbors as we do ourselves, is being confirmed and reaffirmed. — Ordway Tead

When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you. — Rebecca West

I have friends in politics who really put the friendship to the test through their behavior. — Martin Schulz

Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally. — Steve Ballmer

Why had I failed to realize the depth of Mary's faith despite all those
letters? She'd certainly done her best to share it. The answer came to me in
the midst of my own faith journey, one that seemed to begin the night my
mother died and was jump-started when I lost David seventeen months later.
Why hadn't I seen it?
Simple. I wasn't looking.
According to Jeremiah 29:13 in the Bible, "You will seek me and find
me when you seek me with all your heart" (NIV). It wasn't about Mary at all. It was about me. It wasn't until my mother's death that I began actively
seeking God. I didn't see Mary's Christian example because I hadn't yet
developed spiritually. I wasn't "there" yet. I didn't recognize true faith
because I didn't have my own. — Mary Potter Kenyon

You either go into this believing God's in control or you go in shaking in your boots. I'm grabbing hold of the whole God-thing. — Ruth Logan Herne

If I wasn't modelling, I guess I would work in fashion as a buyer. — Georgia Salpa

To restrict oneself and somewhat settle under a particular sexual essence is to limit our expression and individual progress. — Nityananda Das

Be kind to her when she comes back. Her love is not only for children but for humanity. She will be a good-hearted and magnificent zealot one day. As her mother is now.
Goodbye, Kate. And below he had signed as he rarely did, with his Christian name. — Dorothy Dunnett

I tend to relate more to people on television who are just themselves, for good or for bad, than I do to someone who I believe is putting on some sort of persona. The anchorman on 'The Simpsons' is a reasonable facsimile of some anchors who have that problem. — Anderson Cooper

The challenge of the retail business is the human condition. — Howard Schultz

Sam sighed. "Let's just say that I'm a terminal disappointment. And a ranga."

I frowned. "What is that? The others keep saying it."

Sam hesitated for a moment. "It's...Greek. It means debonair and handsome and generally made of awesome."

I regarded him skeptically. "It's short for orangutan, isn't it?" I said. "Because you're a redhead."

Sam looked disappointed. "Maybe. — Lili Wilkinson