Spanella Quotes & Sayings

No one I remember still lives there except Madame Sapphia Spanella, a husky coloratura who every afternoon went roller-skating in Central Park. — Truman Capote

It is reported from the famous worshiper Rabi'ah al-Adawiyya (radiAllahu anha) that she said: "I have never heard the adhaan except that I remember the caller who will announce the Day of Resurrection, and I never see the falling snow except that I imagine the flying pages of the records of peoples deeds (on that day), and I never see swarms of locusts except that I think about the Great Gathering on the Last Day." — Rabia Basri

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme. — Robert McNamara

When one submits himself to the Lord to do His will, God begins to unfold step by step that which is His will for His child. Get this cardinal fact in mind: God can speak loud enough to make a willing soul hear, but God cannot speak loud enough to reveal His will to an unwilling soul. Willingness to do God's will is a prerequisite to knowing that will. — J. Dwight Pentecost

With an all-or-nothing mind-set, you tend to judge yourself relentlessly ... Eeyore becomes your best friend. — Mary E. DeMuth

A picture can be an answer as well as a question but if you can't answer your question try to question your question ... There can be questions without answers but no answers without questions. — Ernst Haas

But witnesses incur responsibilities, as anyone who has ever seen a traffic accident and had to go to court to testify, knows. In the new world of globally televised war crimes, the defence of 'not knowing,' or neutrality, will dissolve for everyone. To be a witness or bystander is not a value-free choice but, inadvertently, a moral position; and in this sense the 'guilt' of people who live with the memory of crimes committed by members of their families, or communities, has been unwittingly extended to everyone who watches appalling pictures on the news. — Erna Paris

I love book books, real books, books with spines and heart, dust jackets, books that smell of books. Take the frame from a painting and you have a painting, not art. Take the pages from a book and print them on a screen and you have the ghost of a book. Not a book. — Chloe Thurlow

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance. — Jeremy Taylor

I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers ... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted. — Terry Pratchett

I don't really think you can ever stop making new friends or learning about as many new things as possible. — Taylor Swift

No matter how much you want to be my hero, I can't be saved. — Colleen Hoover

Joblessness sets you free — Sunday Adelaja

Bloody hell, every time. Some days being a godmother is a pain in my bubbly ass, — Marie Hall