Stardsol Quotes & Sayings

Two special agents at the front door pulled me outside. By that time, they had already had the house surrounded with loaded weapons, machine guns, shotguns ... about 25 federal agents. — Sherman Austin

The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not. — Gertrude Atherton

From deep in the tradition, from The Cloud of Unknowing, a fourteenth-century text from an unnamed English monk: "You only need a tiny scrap of time to move toward God." The words slap. Busyness is not much of an excuse if it only takes a minute or two to move toward God. But the monk's words console, too. For, of time and person, it seems that scraps are all I have to bring forward. That my ways of coming to God these days are all scraps. — Lauren F. Winner

The more wealth a man has, the louder his children talk. — E.W. Howe

He saw, on their faces, that stubbornly evasive look ... the look of a man cheating himself of his own consciousness. — Ayn Rand

This was sharing office space with wacko and bordering on ludicrous. — Kelly Moran

Even if it remained for 10 more years, it is not the commission that will solve the justice situation, it is us, the Guatemalans, who must see if we truly want to fix our institutions, strengthen them and move forward. — Otto Perez Molina

I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get
and never would get. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization. — Thomas P.M. Barnett

The belief of Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) is known as samkit (Right belief). Ignorant belief is known as mithyatva (illusion). — Dada Bhagwan

considerable discussion, the Draft Committee's submission received — R.C. Sproul

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer.
He smiled. Gallows humor. — John Green

A kind and generous man by nature, he had stumbled, by chance, over that common Philosopher's stone (much more easily discovered than the object of the alchemist's researches), which sometimes trips up kind and generous men, and has the fatal property of turning gold to dross and every precious thing to poor account. — Charles Dickens

I've noticed in myself that if something small and ultimately meaningless has gone wrong - I can't find the file I left on top of my desk, my daughter failed to do what I asked her to do before going to a friend's house - I can easily get rattled. But if someone calls to inform me of a serious difficulty - someone has been in an accident, or a child is in trouble - I notice a profound stillness come over me as I focus on the problem. In the former case, my temptation to become frantic does not attract solutions, but rather hinders them. There is nothing in my personal energy that invites help from others, nor do I have the clarity to think through what I need to do next. — Marianne Williamson