Shortridge Ramey Quotes & Sayings

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. — Garrison Keillor

the gospel of repentance is a constant reminder that the most righteous are still being tested and may yet fall, and that the most wicked are not yet beyond redemption and may still be saved."14 — Marvin R. VanDam

I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway. — Duane Michals

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions — Aristotle.

When one person is struck by the Word, he speaks it to others. God has willed that we should seek and find His living Word in the witness of a brother, in the mouth of man. Therefore, the Christian needs another Christian who speaks God's Word to him. The Christ in his own heart is weaker than the Christ in the word of his brother; his own heart is uncertain, his brother's is sure. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

She was a bookish person who'd never been exposed to books: she was gifted with astute powers of observation, but her thoughts and feelings weren't filtered through those that she'd read, those that had been written before. She had a unique way of seeing the world and a manner of expressing herself that caught Juniper unawares and made her laugh and think and feel things anew. — Kate Morton

When a family loses its ability to dream, children don't grow, love doesn't grow and life loses strength, eventually it shuts off. — Pope Francis

The enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes. We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream. Still — Peter S. Beagle

The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren't the problem; they're the solution. — Christiane Northrup

Siena DePiero...will you do me the honour of becoming my wife? Because you're in my head and my heart and my soul, and you have been for five years - ever since I first saw you. First you were a fascination, then you became an obsession, and now...I love you. The thought of you being in this world but not with me is more terrifying than anything I've ever known. So, please...will you marry me? — Abby Green

You have projected onto yourself a world of your own imagination, based on memories, on desires and fears, and you have imprisoned yourself in it. Break the spell and be free. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp. — W.G. Sebald

Surely there is nothing so ungracious, nor nothing so cruel, but men will hold therewith, if it be once approved by custom. — Desiderius Erasmus