Standerton Guest Quotes & Sayings

The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us. — Joan D. Chittister

Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I'm a very senses-oriented person, and I want to bring readers in on the level of the senses, so they can experience another culture and another place. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making? — Betty MacDonald

We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We're also allowed to change or modify our opinions. — Jerry Saltz

The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country. — Abraham Cowley

He watched the sun rise beyond the grape arbor. In the thin golden light the young leaves and tendrils of the Scuppernong were like Twink Weatherby's hair. He decided that sunrise and sunset both gave him a pleasantly sad feeling. The sunrise brought a wild, free sadness; the sunset, a lonely yet a comforting one. He indulged his agreeable melancholy until the earth under him turned from gray to lavender and then to the color dried corn husks. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want. It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can! — Barack Obama

A scientist first has to presuppose any theory based on available relevant data. In terms of such presupposition, a scientist begins his journey of scientific exploration as a philosopher. — Abhijit Naskar

The simplest way to attract a ghost was to sit quietly and open yourself up to the interactions. He'd seen those shows where a passel of tough guys ran around abandoned asylums and jails, hollering macho taunts at the spirits. There was a reason they rarely found any useful evidence or got more than a banging door for their troubles: ghosts didn't answer to shitheels. — Lauren M. Roy

How shocking must thy summons be, O death, to him that is at ease in his possessions! who, counting on long years of pleasure here, is quite unfurnished for the world to come. — Robert Blair

It's different ... isn't it? Perry will know I left to protect him - won't he? You saw how many people left ... because of me. None of this would have happened if I hadn't been there in the first place. I had to leave."
Roar nodded. "It's still going to hurt."
Aria pressed the heels of her hands to her eyes, keeping back the tears. [He] was right. When it came to pain, reasons didn't matter. — Veronica Rossi

Be wise; let prudence dictate all your counsels; preserve peace with all men, if possible; stand by the Constitution of your country; observe its principles; and above all, show yourselves men of God, worthy citizens. — Joseph Smith Jr.

I never could have expected I'd lose so much of myself betting on you. — Kandi Steiner

Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work. — Orrin Woodward