Tonias Quotes & Sayings

The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

I grew up in St. Louis, and I just couldn't wait until I turned 18 because I wanted to move to New York. — Bryan Greenberg

I have no interest in eliminating the tension between justice and forgiveness by taking justice off the table. Given the subtleties of sin and the persistence of evil, we would soon be living in moral anarchy and political chaos if there were no provision for justice. — Eugene H. Peterson

In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better. — Hanya Yanagihara

Do you really think that laws made by men and a justice system maintained by men will ever be fair in cases of rape?
Nora Hawks from One Bullet Beyond Justice — Dennis R. Miller

I don't recall getting a first guitar. — Ronnie Montrose

The unconscious fabric of human destiny had done with her, unraveling all her grievances and reweaving them as joyous circumstance. — Michelle Franklin

we are like a Egg ...
if broken by inside , LIFE begins.
if broken by outside,LIFE End. — Sushil Singh

Internet Explorer, your honor, is the fruit of Microsoft's statutory violations and it should be denied them. — Brendan Sullivan

The ancient savagery that men call motherhood, who mistake its tenderness for weakness. — Diana Gabaldon

I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached. — Bertrand Russell

there had been times in the past when my sister-in-law's counsel, while never useful, had provided a certain amount of welcome bemusement, like the advice of an oracular hen. — Michael Chabon

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length. — Plutarch

My true love is history, but I didn't know how I could make a living at it. — Robert Zoellick