Schwekendiek Quotes & Sayings

I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that. — Brad Pitt

Let the Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that man is born with certain God-given rights; that government is only a convenience created and managed by the people, with no powers of its own except those voluntarily granted to it by the people. We sometimes forget that great truth, and we never should. Happy Fourth of July. — Ronald Reagan

A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast. — Warner LeRoy

We shouldn't judge people. But there's a difference between judging and observing. And sometimes as we observe, our eyebrows become raised. Observation with an attitude, that's what I like to call it. — C. JoyBell C.

It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A lie is no less a lie because it is a thousand years old. Your undivided church has liked nothing better than persecuting its own members, burning them and hacking them apart when they stood by their own conscience, slashing their bellies open and feeding their guts to dogs. — Hilary Mantel

I don't know of a way to have a generous church without a generous pastor. — Johnny Hunt

The awakening passed from simple recognition of my need for God at the center of my life, to a depth where the will is stirred And that is a deeper place by far. That is the place of response, of unifying one's heart, mind, soul and feet around a decision. — Sue Monk Kidd

It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition. — Joseph Addison

I do not know why it matters that I should tell the truth to myself at night, why it should matter that the truth should be spoken at least once in the world. Because the world is a place of silence, the sky at night when the birds have gone is a vast silent place. Words will make the slightest difference to the sky at night. They will not brighten it or make it less strange. And the day too has its own deep indifference to anything that is said. — Colm Toibin

The greatest betrayal is betraying yourself. — Ama H. Vanniarachchy