Smocked Auctions Quotes & Sayings

Chester's playing filled the station. Like ripples around a stone dropped into still water, the circles of silence spread out from the newsstand. And as people listened, a change came over their faces. Eyes that looked worried grew soft and peaceful; tongues left off chattering; and ears full of the city's rustling were rested by the cricket's melody. — George Selden

Yes, I don't read books for entertainment. — Elizabeth Olsen

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. — Bohdi Sanders

A person cannot be whole in a relationship where he or she feels powerless to make healthy choices. — Beth Moore

Maybe making yourself vulnerable to someone else was the bravest thing you could ever — Carmen Jenner

I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, "We shouldn't be teaching creationism." Being right doesn't mean it'll pass. — Eugenie Scott

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus — Alexander Graham Bell

Jane Austen's narrative style seems to me to show (especially in the later novels) a curiously chameleon-like faculty; it varies in colour as the habits of expression of the several characters impress themselves on the relation of the episode in which they are involved, and on the description of their situations. — Mary Lascelles

Argued for an hour on the telephone. now looking at pictures of carbs — Megan Boyle

OUT of that moment Jesus was nailed to his cross flowed our attempts to represent it, to create a narrative that could contain it. Yet the body, hanging there, is still, simply, terrible. Caravaggio's genius was to paint Jesus with dirty feet, to bring him back down to earth. — Nick Flynn