Spiffy Stuff Quotes & Sayings

A mindful parent is one who is committed to practicing being present and awake, and to listening deeply to her child, moment by moment. Mindfulness depends upon awareness. — Shauna L. Shapiro

I had a very modest upbringing. — Balthazar Getty

concerns. That is enough. That is more — Vannetta Chapman

It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Serbs have only two friends, God and the Greeks. — Radovan Karadzic

I love the comfort of daily life's routines: things like being able to read a paper on the subway. It's no accident that my favourite word is 'quotidian.' — Elizabeth Strout

One of the most fruitless, irritating wastes in the world is arguing-the contentious, endless kind of arguing that is akin to quarreling, and causes feuding in families and among friends, and leaves resentful feeling in homes, in hearts, in businesses and professions, and in all kinds of gatherings in public and private places, and in all relationships of life-and with so little that it ever seems to settle! — Richard L. Evans

It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

You have to make decisions - you know what you think. That doesn't mean the audience are aware of your decisions or what you think - the lines you're saying may have ambiguity. — Tom Goodman-Hill

The difference 'twixt poet and coxcomb is precisely that the latter stops gaps like a ship fitter caulking seams, merely to keep the boat afloat, while the former doth his work as doth a man with a maid: he fills the gap, but with vigor, finesse, and care; there's beauty and delight as well as utility in his plugging — John Barth

The problem isn't reading Ayn Rand, it's liking her. — Lisa Lutz