Treasuredandtimeless Quotes & Sayings

The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning. — Thomas B. Macaulay

I have loved Jesus my whole life, and it has been such a privilege for me. To be able to marry my work and God together has been such a blessing. — Roma Downey

Tom envied him with a heartbreaking surge of envy and self-pity. — Patricia Highsmith

I test the limits of myself in order to transform myself, but I also take the energy from the audience and transform it. — Marina Abramovic

Before anything else, above all else, beyond all else God love us. God loves us extravagantly, ridiculously, without limit or condition. God is in love with us ... God yearns for us. — Roberta Bondi

A good plot should have a strong middle and a spectacular end. But under no circumstances should it have a beginning. — A.M. Dean

Don't worry about the finish line. Don't question what you're doing. Just quiet your mind and keep up the pace. — Dana Reinhardt

When you think about such fine actors as Maggie Smith or Michael Gambon, they do all mediums. I think it would be quite sad and a bit dull just to have to stick to one. I like all of them. — Keeley Hawes

When you're born a light is switched on, a light which shines up through your life. As you get older the light still reaches you, sparkling as it comes up through your memories. And if you're lucky as you travel forward through time, you'll bring the whole of yourself along with you, gathering your skirts and leaving nothing behind, nothing to obscure the light. But if a Bad Thing happens part of you is seared into place, and trapped for ever at that time. The rest of you moves onward, dealing with all the todays and tomorrows, but something, some part of you, is left behind. That part blocks the light, colours the rest of your life, but worse than that, it's alive. Trapped for ever at that moment, and alone in the dark, that part of you is still alive. — Michael Marshall Smith

We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don't want to be forced to integrate. Integration is wrong. We don't want to live with the white man; that's all. — Muhammad Ali