Shoning Quotes & Sayings

The public always picks quality. — Randy Jackson

What did you think I would do? Ask her if I could braid her hair after we gave each other facials and painted our toenails?
Marcus — Dianne Duvall

It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent. — Mike Pence

It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin. — Woodrow Wilson

Everything was a trap: women, drugs, whiskey, wine, scotch, beer - even beer - cigars, and cigarettes. Traps: Work or no work. Traps: Artistry or no artistry; everything sucked you into some spiderweb. I disdained the use of the needle for the same reason that I disdained some so-called beautiful women - the price was far beyond the measure of the worth. I didn't want to hustle that hard. — Charles Bukowski

I honor the sanctity of all religions - I'm not here to put them down. But the only religion that I personally embrace is the religion of kindness. There are many paths to God. What really bothers me - and what I think is the height of arrogance and stupidity - is when one group believes their way is the only way. That really gets my dander up. — Leslie Jordan

The ultimate goal of all of life is to know and love God, make him known, and thereby glorify him. — Erik Thoennes

There is a method to the madness of James Patterson's success. Co-writing with him is a terrific learning experience, particularly in the art of crafting a perfect thriller. The collaboration also gives me an opportunity to access a wider global audience. — Ashwin Sanghi

Indians do not like Indian teachers; they prefer foreigners, but there is a huge demand for Indian teachers around the world. — Bikram Choudhury

We believe in a single fundamental idea that describes better than most textbooks and any speech that I could write what a proper government should be: the idea of family, mutuality, the sharing of benefits and burdens for the good of all, feeling one another's pain, sharing one another's blessings - reasonably, honestly, fairly, without respect to race, or sex, or geography, or political affiliation. — Mario

But this is what I also thought as I watched the waves of trash crash over the cracked and broken road: that for the rest of us, Arizona would always be one of our places now. It would be on the list of things we own in our heads. Don't we all have this list? It's like, everything that secretly belongs to us - a favorite color, or springtime, or a house we don't live in anymore. We all gained Arizona by coming here, but for the people who already lived here, we could only take something away. — Adam Rex

You know the way Jesus
rips open his shirt
to show us his heart, all flaming and thorny,
the way he points to it. I'm afraid
the way I'll miss you will be this obvious. — Nick Flynn

I went through a phase where I loved tattoos, and I loved the feeling of getting tattooed. — Dakota Johnson

Envious, cold, and lonely. The perfect ingredients for a nice homemade bitter pie. — Cecelia Ahern