Sentiments For Christmas Quotes & Sayings

The richness of God's Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Since I was a little boy, she had always wanted me to go. She was always sending me off on a bus someplace, to elementary school, to camp, to relatives in Kentucky, to college. She pushed me away from her just as she'd pushed my elder siblings away when we lived in New York, literally shoving them out the front door when they left for college. — James McBride

Government that is open and honest will always be able to withstand the light of day. — Rick Perry

Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined. — Richard Koch

We should not expect to have all the blessings of life and none of its trials. It would make this world too delightful a dwelling place, and I fear we would never care to leave it. — Tamera Alexander

As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet. — Peter Diamandis

I could remember the details of the meeting exactly. My dad had worn a pink shirt, the button-down kind that his new girlfriend, Cindy, probably bought him. She's a stylist, which means that she gets paid by adults to dress them in age-inappropriate clothing and then tell them that they look "hip." Atlanta is full of tight-assed, bleached-bond women who look twenty from behind and turn around to reveal their Botoxed, eight-thousand-year-old, veiny-handed glory. These were Cindy's clients. — Alison Umminger

I never know why people come up to me. I think a lot of them just get super-excited because they recognize me from TV but they don't remember where. — Mary-Louise Parker

When you do something different, you are either blessed or cursed! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

decision. I was tired of his jealousy, sick of his belief that the only permissible topic of conversation was his unrecognized genius. — Francine Prose

However, I have a low opinion of people with narrow political horizons. Someone who talks about the environment and knows nothing about economics can make as many mistakes as someone who does the opposite. — Sigmar Gabriel

Even in a comedy, you have to make people feel. You have to put your hand inside their soul and twist out their heart. — Paul Haggis

T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft. — Robert Browning

Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks and getting lost in the labyrinthine corridors of knowledge. The best libraries are places of imagination, education and community. The best libraries have mystery to them. — Sam Weller

By then Einstein had finally discovered what was fundamental about America: it can be swept by waves of what may seem, to outsiders, to be dangerous political passions but are, instead, passing sentiments that are absorbed by its democracy and righted by its constitutional gyroscope. McCarthyism had died down, and Eisenhower had proved a calming influence. "God's own country becomes stranger and stranger," Einstein wrote Hans Albert that Christmas, "but somehow they manage to return to normality. Everything - even lunacy - is mass produced here. But everything goes out of fashion very quickly."9 Almost — Walter Isaacson