Shirred Top Quotes & Sayings

Better than putting things in the attic you never use again. This way, you get to live the summer over for a minute or two here or there along the way through the winter, and when the bottles are empty the summer's gone for good and no regrets and no sentimental trash lying about for you to stumble over forty years from now. Clean, smokeless, efficient, that's dandelion wine.
(page 266 in the 1975 hardback) — Ray Bradbury

So then, the command "Do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good" is a clear witness to the fact that you can be a winner in the battle against evil. No matter where or when it occurs, regardless of it's impact or force, there is no attack that can be made that you cannot withstand if you do so by using God's weapons, according to God's revealed strategy and are energized by His powerful Spirit. — Jay E. Adams

Impending doom, it was a familiar sweater, we all wore it and as scratchy as it felt against our skin, we kept it on. — Holly Hood

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned how to dance- waiting for the bathroom. — Bob Hope

In fact, knowing she'd been through hardship filled me with sweet tenderness. — Taichi Yamada

Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries - just as long as other people have been pursuing happiness and writing books about it. — Amy Bloom

I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level. — Diane Paulus

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America. — Barack Obama

I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges soaking up so much water. — Neil Leckman

American churches work very hard at reaching out to people to bring them in. — Rodney Stark

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body. — H.L. Mencken

What does God want me to do?", not "What will God do if I do so and so? — George MacDonald

I'm a teenager, and we mess up sometimes. — Jen Calonita

For most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory
no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto
and they suffered the loss of nature like a phantom-limb pain, an amputation that scrambled the body's rhythms, starved the senses, and made basic ideas about the world impossible for children to fathom. — Diane Ackerman