Steas Quotes & Sayings

I need to buy some postcards to send to Mom and Dad,' said Ian, heading up the steas to the Captain's Quill Bookshop. 'I also want to send some funny ones to Jackson and some of my other friends.'
'I'll get one for my mom,' said Zoe.
But as she sorted through the postcards, she remembered her mom was travling all summer without a fixed address, and email was a no-go because Granddad didn't own a computer. She didn't have the addresses of any of her friends with her, either-not that she had many friends. — Christine Brodien-Jones

Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people. — Henri Nouwen

Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports. — Joseph Hume

She is the ocean crashing into me, tossing me, drowning me. — Heidi Acosta

Contemporary social democracy is what I believe is the right concept. — Mikhail Gorbachev

I don't want to take away anybody's religion, but simply to make them see what religion really means. — Abhijit Naskar

When I was Governor, Louis Kelso went out of his way to brief me. I was very impressed, but I was never able to get any of the economists in state government to give him the help his plan deserves. — Jerry Brown

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it. — John R.W. Stott

Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place. — Zebulon Pike

She slapped him, quick and hard. His head turned slightly with the blow, but other than that his only reaction was the narrowing of his eyes. Her chest was heaving as if she were running. "No! You must go to London. You must get him out. You must save my brother because if you don't, I swear upon everything I hold holy that I'll ruin both you and your illustrious name. I'll - " "Little bitch," he breathed, his face turned fiery red, and he slammed his mouth against hers. There was no softness in him. He claimed her lips like a marauder: hard and angry. If she'd once thought him cold as ice, well, that ice was burned away now by the fire of his rage. — Elizabeth Hoyt

I got a job as a children's librarian at PS 175 in Harlem, and that changed everything. That was an epiphany. I didn't know Harlem existed. I didn't know there was such a place, because I grew up in white Queens, where five miles is 100 miles. — Lynne Stewart

Ancient handmaiden. The door opened directly — L.M. Montgomery

Infinity is just zero spelled backwards. — Derek R. Audette

She married a man who soon left her; that man became a myth; and then that myth returned home and proved to be just a man after all. — Nelson Mandela

Since inner peace is the source of all happiness, we can see how important meditation is. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso