Thurbon Mchaney Quotes & Sayings

They amuse themselves by playing an irrelevant ecclesiastical game called "Let's Pretend." Let's pretend that we possess the objective truth of God in our inerrant Scriptures or in our infallible pronouncements or in our unbroken apostolic traditions. — John Shelby Spong

I just have this feeling that if it weren't for the Gloversville Free Library that I probably would not be a writer. — Richard Russo

I do my best to work out 5 days a week. There are times when I can only get in 3 days a week because I am traveling or just need rest due to a hectic schedule. But working out is always a priority, and if I fall off due to my schedule, it is not long before I get back on track. — Laila Ali

The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God. — Ezra Stiles

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men — George S. Patton Jr.

This ideal of glory and grandeur--which consists not merely in considering that nothing wrong that one does but in priding oneself on every crime once commits. — Leo Tolstoy

Sonja used to say that Ove was "unforgiving." For instance, he refused to go back to the local bakery eight years after they gave him the wrong change when he bought pastries once at the end of the 1990s. Ove called it "having firm principles." They were never quite in agreement when it came to words and their meanings.
p. 239 — Fredrik Backman

Why didn't I ask him for his number, address, e-mail - anything? Why? Because I'm in a sodding war zone, that's why. And I'm a soldier. And this wasn't supposed to happen. — David Massey

Dogs love company. They place it first on their short list of needs. — J.R. Ackerley

Farewell, beautiful
lilies, elegant in your painted little sanctuaries, good-bye, lovely lilies, our pride and reason for
existing, good-bye you bastards! — Jean-Paul Sartre

Some people are just self-motivated - my husband was. I also believe there are many children for whom parental involvement is key. — Amy Chua

A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance. — Colin McEnroe