Tibbys Brandon Quotes & Sayings

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend. — Emanuel Swedenborg

I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves. — L.M. Montgomery

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none — Lois Lowry

I'm not sure what God has in store for you but I do know one thing - it will be good. I've learned He doesn't skimp with those who have a heart for Him. After all, His Word says He honors those who honor Him. — Julie Lessman

View a stumbling block as a learning opportunity. If you allow it to defeat you, it will. Honestly, if I give everything I have, I can't be disappointed with the outcome. — Elana Meyers

Backward we traveled to reclaim the day
Before we fell, like Icarus, undone;
All we find are altars in decay
And profane words scrawled black across the sun.
From the poem "Doom of the Exiles", written 16 April 1954 — Sylvia Plath

I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is. — Pat Metheny

Dead men never pick up their trophies. — Michael Weisskopf

No system of balance functions automatically. — Kenneth Waltz

Obadiah Hakeswill had never been concerned by such enmity. Power did not lie in being liked, but in being feared. — Bernard Cornwell

Long long ago down the browning decades, in the light of the old century in Carolina, walked a toddling child, a wary boy, a strong young male of muscle, blood, and brain who saw, who laughed and listened, smelled and touched, ate, drank, and bred, occupying time and space with his getting and spending in the world. What his biographer will strive to recover is a true sense of this human being, with all his particularity and hope and promise, in the hope that the reader might understand who the grown man might have become had he not known too much of privation, rage, and loss. — Peter Matthiessen

Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, Filling an emptiness we don't even know we have. — Thom Jones

Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew. — Idries Shah

Trust me
with women worth the being won,
The softest lover ever best succeeds. — Aaron Hill