Siretta Williams Quotes & Sayings

God made humans for a purpose: not simply for themselves, not simply so that they could be in relationship with him, but so that through them, as his image-bearers, he could bring his wise, glad, fruitful order to the world. — N. T. Wright

She knows her place in this world. She can tear down its walls, and still nobody knows her name. - Naomi — Tara Kelly

After a life deprived of everything from romantic love to the choice of when to wake up in the morning, after 29 years without the ability to have a career or even to be alone at toilet, the Bijani sisters are not symbols but women who have had to live a shared life of constant, quotidian sacrifice. — Darin Strauss

We can't test these absolute limits on humans. We can't blast them with sound. However, we can do that to animals because they don't have the same political base that we do. — John Baird

In my twenties, I was a bit of a worrier; it bothered me what people thought of me, what job I was doing. — Michelle Dockery

The fact that light travels at a finite, but very high, speed was first discovered in 1676 by the Danish astronomer Ole Christensen Roemer. — Stephen Hawking

She was in the right place at the right time last night, safe inside when the tree came down.
One thing different - an extra piece of sandpaper outside when she needed it, the tree falling a bit sooner - and she would be gone. One thing different - hitting a red light instead of a green one on the way to the freeway, choosing another errand to run that day - and my dad and Ben would still be here.
It's not right that something so big, your entire life, depends on a million tiny things. — Ally Condie

Attacking a belief can be the first step toward embracing it. — Mason Cooley

Unlike most divorced parents, whose interactions are confined to the topic of the kids, people still sharing a house have to talk about clogged sinks and moth infestations. — Katie Hafner

Too much positive is either scared or stupid or both. Reality is uncertain. — Robert B. Parker

I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations. — Charlotte Bronte

The secret to #success lies in the gap between dream and reality. — Bret Michaels

Kallor shrugged. '[ ... ] I have walked this land when the T'lan Imass were but children. I have commanded armies a hundred thousand strong. I have spread the fire of my wrath across entire continents, and sat alone upon tall thrones. Do you grasp the meaning of this?'
'Yes,' [said Caladan Brood.] 'You never learn. — Steven Erikson

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books. — Thomas Carlyle

The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness. — Eckhart Tolle