Shinwell Johnson Quotes & Sayings

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I have always been edified by Hebrew prayers. — Moses Hess

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. — J.K. Rowling

It is a good rule of thumb for spiritual directors to ask themselves, What truly constitutes our spiritual concern here? Am I really being attentive to the Lord in this? What things are getting in the way of our simple, humble intention towards the working of the Holy Spirit in this person's life? All human experience can be said to be spiritual in the largest sense, but spiritual direction should deal primarily with those qualities that seem most clearly and specifically spiritual, those that reveal the presence or leadings of God, or evidence of grace, working most directly in a person's life. This becomes increasingly important as spiritual direction progresses over time with any given individual. In the course of spiritual maturation, concern with superficial psychological experience must give way to a much more basic concern for the discernment of good and evil. — Gerald G. May

God's Word is the ultimate beauty treatment for every woman. — Elizabeth George

I would have had all I needed. I would have had everything if all I had was you. And you took away my shot to show you that. — Kristen Ashley

I've been a staunch advocate of women's empowerment, and I've worked hard throughout my career to advance the cause. It is heartening to see that gender equality is really becoming more of a reality. There is still much more to be done, and I'm confident that, by working together, we can empower women worldwide. — Madhuri Dixit

And meteorologists have nothing to tell people in Philo, who know perfectly well that the real story is that to the west, between us and the Rockies, there is basically nothing tall, and that weird zephyrs and stirs joined breezes and gusts and thermals and downdrafts and whatever out over Nebraska and Kansas and moved like streams into rivers and jets at and military fronts that gathered like avalanches and roared in reverse down pioneer oxtrails, toward our own personal unsheltered asses. — David Foster Wallace

I don't write books inadvertently. — A. N. Wilson

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile. — Brian Tracy