Spinwell Quotes & Sayings

Figs: Bananas and apples may win the popularity contest, but figs are like the quiet girl next door who turns out to be a salsa-dancing neurosurgeon. And dried figs are even more remarkable. Figs have a tremendous amount of fiber, a thousand times more calcium than other common fruits (by weight), 80 percent more potassium than bananas, more iron than most other fruits, and a potent blast of magnesium - all for around 30 calories a fig. — Pete Magill

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself. — Jim Wallis

Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape. — Sharon Salzberg

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it. — George Bernard Shaw

Then came the fateful day Mrs. Davis went through her class list, letting each boy pick his folk dance partner for the upcoming "Hooray for Culture!" assembly.
Mrs. Davis called Justin's name.
Jane sat up.
Justin said, "Hattie Spinwell."
Hattie flipped her hair.
For years after, there were few things Jane distrusted so much as the words "guy's choice." — Shannon Hale

Find time to admire and appreciate the glittering lights on snowflakes. — Debasish Mridha

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. — Muhammad Ali

The road to success is never easy; You're going to get dirty on the way — Andrea L'Artiste

His stepmother -wearing a nightgown for comfort and a flowered hat for looks- had spent her days sitting in their parlor window in Baltimore drinking sherry out of a coffee cup. — John Cheever

I'm mainstream, and I have pretty chart-tastic tastes. I don't often veer away from a big melodic song with big words for big stadiums. — Robbie Williams

Good nutrition and vitamins do not directly cure disease, the body does. You provide the raw materials and the inborn wisdom of your body makes the repairs. Someday healthcare without megavitamin therapy will be seen as we today see childbirth without sanitation or surgery without anaesthetic. — Andrew W. Saul

Evil ethicists are the holocaust of humanity; if philosophy can be the instant sunlight to their endless vampirism, it will save more lives than all the doctors who have ever lived. — Stefan Molyneux