Sheplers Western Quotes & Sayings

I give people credit for buying into consumerism — John Green

It is not scholarship alone, but scholarship impregnated with religion, that tells on the great mass of society. We have no faith in the efficacy of mechanic's institutes, or even of primary and elementary schools, for building up a virtuous and well conditioned peasantry, so long as they stand dissevered from the lessons of Christian piety. — Thomas Chalmers

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence. — Samuel Johnson

If you have something to say and say nothing, you are really telling a lie. — Ashleigh Brilliant

There are two types of optimism, real optimism and fake, cowardly optimism. Real optimism sees the Valley of Dry Bones and says, 'These bones will rise!' Fake, cowardly optimism says, 'I like these bones. Dry bones are so very artistic to look at. — Fiorella De Maria

There is pressure when you have a very big book like 'Shadow Divers' to follow up with something big. But you can't let that pressure determine what you do. You just look for the best stories, and when you find a great one, you tell it. — Robert Kurson

Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens. — Peter Ackroyd

Worry is different from fear. If fear is like a raging fever, worry is a low-grade temperature. It nags at us, simmers in our souls, hovers in the back of our minds like a faint memory. We may fear certain realities, like death; we worry about vague possibilities. Worry distracts us more than paralyzes us. It is like a leaky faucet we never get around to fixing. — Gerald Lawson Sittser

We are all tainted by the decisions we make." "And the taste of our souls reflects that?" "It does. — Darynda Jones

Coyotes don't eat dachshunds," Johnson said. "Dachshunds were bred to go down badger tunnels and drag the badgers out by their ass. A good-sized dachshund could weigh thirty pounds and has jaws like a crocodile. Old Dixie would straight-out fuck up a coyote." "Didn't know that," Virgil said. - — John Sandford

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed. — W.C. Fields

I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling. — Bette Davis

No more will. No more freedom. Nothing new but agonizing death and never good shall come of it. We are the last of those who gave you breath and form, millions of years ago. We are the last of those your kind defied and ruthlessly destroyed. We are the last Precursors. And now we are legion. — Greg Bear

knowledge without accomplishment is pain'. — Samarpan

I know you exist not just because your eyes fly
and give light to things like an open window — Pablo Neruda