Speckmann Quotes & Sayings

Loneliness itself is material for sacrifice. The very longings themselves can be offered to Him who understands perfectly. The transformation into something He can use for the good of others takes place only when the offering is put into his hands. — Elisabeth Elliot

They had an ugly look to one as prone to disgust and fear as the changes of a few hours had made me. — Charles Dickens

With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to. — T. S. Eliot

A person who smiles in the face of adversity ... probably has a scapegoat. — Stephen Hawking

But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. — Clarence Thomas

People divulge things to you that they would not divulge to anyone else. — Melina Marchetta

I have one pug and one Czechoslovakian dog called Prazsky krysarik. — Agnetha Faltskog

I've always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better. — Bjork

I was hitchhiking the other day and a hearse stopped. I said, 'No thanks, I'm not going that far. — Steven Wright

Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps that was life's only way to settle the dust after the enormous storm we had just survived together. — Ramona Matta

The money to be made is clearly more important than the extinctions we cause, including our own. — Guy R. McPherson

For some reason, I believed that I had above all else an obligation to protect everyone
my teachers, my family
from the knowledge of my cutting. What they did not know would not cause them pain. — Caroline Kettlewell