Schwanbeck Brothers Quotes & Sayings

For a hundred and fifty years, in the pasture of dead horses,
roots of pine trees pushed through the pale curves of your ribs,
yellow blossoms flourished above you in autumn, and in winter
frost heaved your bones in the ground
old toilers, soil makers:
O Roger, Mackerel, Riley, Ned, Nellie, Chester, Lady Ghost. — Donald Hall

The West can't come up with anything to deal with Moscow, except appeasement. — Garry Kasparov

Trenton cops wore more hats than I could name. They were arbitrators, social workers, peacekeepers, baby-sitters and law enforcers. The job was boring, terrifying, disgusting, exhausting and often made no sense at all. The pay was abysmal, the hours inhuman, the department budget was a joke, the uniforms were short in the crotch. And year after year, the Trenton cops held the city together. — Janet Evanovich

So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it. — T.D. Jakes

My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you if you were the best of women, -or stop loving you, no matter what you do. — Catullus

Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail. — Hudson Taylor

I'm always so sick of myself after a show. — Marlene Dumas

For whereas speaking distracts, silence and work collect the thoughts and strengthen the spirit. As soon therefore as a person understands what has been said to him for his good, there is not further need to hear or to discuss; but to set himself in earnest to practice what he has learnt with silence and attention, in humility, charity, and contempt of self. — San Juan De La Cruz

Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions. — R.C. Sproul

It's Friday; you ain't got no job ... you ain't got shit to do — Nancy Friday

My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don't believe what you see, don't believe all this marketing. — Daphne Guinness

There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. — John Waters

Suddenly, he felt a tremendous stirring of hope inside his heart; it filled his whole body with its warmth. I may not be that much of a broken man, he thought to himself. — H. L. Balcomb