Sambucol Quotes & Sayings

The greatest element in life is not what occupies most of its time, else sleep would stand high in the scale. Nor is it what engrosses most of its thought, else money would be very high. The two or three hours of worship and preaching weekly has perhaps been the greatest signal influence on English life. Half an hour of prayer, morning or evening, every day, may be a greater element in shaping our course than all our conduct and all our thought. — Peter Forsyth

The privileged liberal position: There should be equal rights for all; I should not have to share my riches with the poor. — Mohsin Hamid

We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves the way we are, and why we don't accept others the way they are. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it. — Thomas Harris

Faith turns mountains into pebbles. Fear turns pebbles into mountains. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The gun issue is a big, unresolved issue in this country right now. I think it's out of control. — Nora Dunn

I'm always in search of those books where you don't want to stop reading, and 'Me Before You' is at the top of that list. — Lauren Weisberger

Great travel writing consists of equal parts curiosity, vulnerability and vocabulary. It is not a terrain for know-it-alls or the indecisive. The best of the genre can simply be an elegant natural history essay, a nicely writ sports piece, or a well-turned profile of a bar band and its music. A well-grounded sense of place is the challenge for the writer. We observe, we calculate, we inquire, we look for a link between what we already know and what we're about to learn. The finest travel writing describes what's going on when nobody's looking. — Tom Miller

My very first professional job was a cartoon, doing voices for the Mr. T cartoon in high school. — Phil LaMarr

The great # conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God. — Henri Nouwen

Aside from the inescapable realities of birth and death, we're responsible for the paths our lives take. We each make our own choices. — Alissa Johnson

It is better to give love. Hatred is a low and degrading motion and is so poisonous that no man is strong enough to use it safely. The hatred we think we are directing against some person or thing or system has a devilish way of turning back upon us. When we seek revenge we administer slow poison to ourselves. When we administer affection it is astonishing what magical results we obtain. — Thomas Dreier

When you have multiple personalities, you never drink alone. — Chris Eliopoulos

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more. — Shirley Manson

Those brain-zapped kids weren't the only - or maybe even the worst - enemy. — Ilsa J. Bick