Stapanea Quotes & Sayings

You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated. We are all scandalized by the sins and failures of some of the Church's members. — Pope Benedict XVI

Does the Sower feed the tale
Or the tale feed the Sower? — Rachna Gilmore

The Shubert grandparents. No comfort there. He in uniform, she in a ball gown, displaying absurd self-satisfaction. They had got what they wanted, Sophia supposed, and had only contempt for those not so conniving or so lucky. — Alice Munro

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. — John Donne

And all of a sudden, she knew. He was going to kiss her. And she wanted him to. More than she could have imagined. Her breath caught as his gaze moved from her eyes to her lips and her whole body tensed as she watched him move closer. His lips were so close to her own that she could feel the light touch of his breath on her skin. Her eyes fluttered closed and she waited on tenterhooks ... all her senses screaming. He's going to kiss you! Only, he didn't. — Sarah MacLean

If someone keeps bringing you down, perhaps it's time to get up and leave — Karen Salmansohn

I realized early on that artifice attracted me to an image more than any other quality - I mean artifice in the sense of staging and heightened color and exaggerated lighting, not a surreal or fictive moment ... I think the lighting and feeling of Cinemascope, the movies I saw as a kid, always stayed with me as a kind of glorious vision of reality. — Laurie Simmons

Art takes nature as its model. — Aristotle.

Competency is a basic value. It is not a means to some other end, such as wealth or position, although such results may occur. — Timothy J. Keller

Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise. [ ... ]
That useless thoughts spoil all: that the mischief began there; but that we ought to reject them, as soon as we perceived their impertinence to the matter in hand, or our salvation; and return to our communion with GOD. — Brother Lawrence

Holy desire can be learned. All prayer is part work and part rest. — Jen Pollock Michel

A lot of people don't like to win. They actually don't know how to win, and they don't like to win because down deep inside they don't want to win. — Donald Trump