Sarah Rosetta Wakeman Quotes & Sayings

The only way to meet affliction is to pass through it solemnly, slowly, with humility and faith, as the Israelites passed through the sea. Then its very ways of misery will divide, and become to us a wall, on the right side and on the left, until the gulf narrows before our eyes and we land safe on the opposite sore. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Only the fearless made proceed.
Brave ones, foolish ones.
Both walk not the middle road. — Toby Fox

I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point. — Colm Toibin

We are each shaped from our birth, not only by the blood and inheritance that lies behind us, but also by those we love and by whom we are loved in turn, by the knowledge given to our thirsty minds, to the learning of ourselves. — Andre Norton

You'll only go as far as you're willing to travel. — Alex Rogers

My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience. — Steven Spielberg

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey. — Denis Diderot

Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end. — Joan D. Chittister

She opened her mouth to answer, but he was already kissing her. She had kissed him so many times - soft gentle kisses, hard and desperate ones, brief brushes of the lips that said good-bye, and kisses that seemed to go on for hours - and this was no different. The way the memory of someone who had once lived in a house might linger even after they were gone, like a sort of psychic
imprint,
her
body remembered
Jace.
Remembered the way he tasted, the slant of his mouth over hers, his scars under her fingers, the shape of his body under her hands. — Cassandra Clare

Nothing to be done about it except give her a reproachful look. I did this. It made no impression whatever, and she proceeded. — P.G. Wodehouse

Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow. — Michael Morpurgo

For we always seem to ourselves righteous and upright and wise and holy - this pride is innate in all of us - unless by clear proofs we stand convinced of our own unrighteousness, foulness, folly, and impurity. — John Calvin

No political party can or ought to exist when one of its corner-stones is opposition to freedom of thought and to the right to worship God "according to the dictate of one's own conscience," or according to the creed of any religious denomination whatever. — Ulysses S. Grant

In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me - My horizon's wide open now. It's scary and it's daunting, but it's an absolute thrill. I feel brand new! — Rachel Stevens

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is. — Warren Zevon