Sackville Street Quotes & Sayings

Our task is to take suffering in stride, not as if it is a pleasure (it isn't), but in the knowledge that God will not let it overwhelm us and that He will use it, by His own supernatural alchemy, to three good ends, at least. 1) Our suffering produces character; 2) Our suffering glorifies God; 3) Suffering fulfills the law of the harvest (John 12:24), Rediscovering Holiness by J.I. Packer, pgs. 232-239. — J.I. Packer

Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot. — Barbara W. Tuchman

As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down. — Tina Yothers

People only call you 'my dear' when they are irritated with you. — Jean Kerr

I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Goddammit. Can't I save you just once? — Meljean Brook

The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins. — Suzanne Collins

Can a rose survive in winter? — Gina Marinello-Sweeney

KILKENNY STUDIED THE street outside. The bulk of the outlaws seemed to have holed up in the livery stable and they were putting up a hot fire. Others had taken positions behind a pile of stones beyond the street and still others in the bunkhouse. There was no way to estimate their numbers. Some — Louis L'Amour

Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do. — Robert Fisk

There is some pleasure in having no pleasure. — Voltaire

For the will and not the gift makes the giver. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

I think a lot of people have a misconception of what the kitchen is about, but you know the grueling part of it is also the pleasure of it. That's why I think you have to have a certain mentality to understand what that is and be able to handle it. — Todd English

No one looks at us. We might as well be invisible; or clothing marks us as strangers, transients. They are polite, so polite; no one stares at us. — Joanne Harris

I grew up thinking of snow as a luxury you visit. — John Landis