Sallah Celebration Quotes & Sayings

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world. — Walter Savage Landor

What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you? — Daphne Du Maurier

Anna has confessed to being a night owl, mostly due to staying up reading. — Kristen Callihan

Sometimes you can't prevent things from happening, and once they're done, you can't change the past. There is a way to deal with the pain, though, because you always control your response. You cry, if you need to. You hurt for a while. But then you look for a way to make a difference. — Carlene O'Neil

The natural proclivity of democratic governments is to pursue public policies which concentrate benefits on the well-organized and well-informed, and disperse the costs on the unorganized and ill-informed. — Peter Boettke

It was evident that such facts as these, as well as many others, could only be explained on the supposition that species gradually become modified; and the subject haunted me. — Charles Darwin

The best gift that you can give to your favourite person is to lead him or her to God. — Osunsakin Adewale

It is called the real presence, not in an exclusive sense, as though other forms of presence were not real, but by reason of its excellence. It is the substantial presence by which Christ is made present without doubt, whole and entire, God and man. — Pope Paul VI

Do it. Go there. Take it away, permanently. Deliver the fear. Force the task. Remove all hope. Demand the sacrifice. Enact defeat. Wreck everything. Great endings are built of great climaxes: enormous feats, worst fears, tremendous losses, harrowing sacrifices, utter destruction. — Donald Maass

Last night, the stars on the water were trap doors. The crows
with their charred wings are complaining to a hawk. It's time
to pack up the sunsets the dawns and move on. — Richard Jackson

I can't even remember how many times I tried to kill myself. — Patty Duke

I don't have the illusion that there's any position or role in the world with as much potential for bringing about change as that of president of the United States. — Al Gore

It is possible to have what you wish for. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner. — Karl Barth

And that was that. You don't get to rewind your life like a tape and splice it back together, pretending it never knotted and tore, when it did and you know it did. — Silvia Moreno-Garcia