Slimmons Quotes & Sayings

My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar. — Maureen Forrester

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion. — William Hazlitt

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha! — Brandon Sanderson

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning. — Roman Jakobson

If abnegation has indeed so many charms for you, why do you fail to practice it in private life? Society will be grateful to you, for someone, at least, will reap the fruit; but to desire to impose it upon mankind as a principle is the very height of absurdity, for the abnegation of all is the sacrifice of all, which is evil erected into a theory. — Frederic Bastiat

Try and travel alone, or - if you are married - with your spouse. It will be harder work, no one will be looking after you, but this is the only way of truly leaving your country. Group travel is just a disguised way of pretending to go abroad, where you speak your own language, obey the leader of the pack, and concern yourself more with the internal gossip of the group than with the place you are visiting. — Paulo Coelho

I use the Scriptures, not as an arsenal to be resorted to only for arms and weapons, but as a matchless temple, where I delight to be, to contemplate the beauty, the symmetry, and the magnificence of the structure, and to increase my awe, and excite my devotion to the Deity there preached and adored. — Robert Boyle

You can only do so much grunting and groaning and then you're done, you know? — Craig T. Nelson

This is one of those days, isn't it? You want to stay safe in a dark, little room a bit longer, hoping the light will never catch up with you, you don't know what's going to happen, but whatever it is, it will wreck your world. — James Marquess

Love was not only blind, it often careened into Blithering Idiotsville as well. — Darynda Jones

When I first came in, I partied and had a good time. I used to spend $500,000 on chains that don't make no sense. Then I started having babies. I don't do the bull**** no more. — Shaquille O'Neal

Oh, this was champ. She'd found herself a Savage prince. Don't laugh, she told herself. Don't laugh, Aria. — Veronica Rossi

You can set a boundary with your words when you are honest and when you establish a consequence for another's hurtful actions. — Henry Cloud

Easy things are worthless ... It's the hard things that matter. Those are the things worth leaping for ... If we don't fight other people's curses, what are we left with? Just a swift fall to the earth, and where's the meaning in that? — Andrea Cremer