Twells Quotes & Sayings

The jazz guitarist Peter Sprague calls his home recording studio SpragueLand, but sometimes it seems that the moniker better captures the way he has turned the entire southland into his own musical playground. Sprague is a highly versatile musician who draws on the wellsprings of jazz and Brazilian music as primary influences. — Andrew S. Gilbert

We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every ... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment. — Laura Bush

It is a shortsighted priesthood leader who doesn't see the value in calling upon the sisters to share the understanding and inspiration they possess. — M. Russell Ballard

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. — Solon

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian. — Mortimer Adler

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen. — Henry Twells

To love is to transform; to be a poet. — Norman O. Brown

Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it's the universe that's breathing. — Dogen

Your touch has still its ancient power, No word from You can fruitless fall; Hear, in this solemn evening hour, And in Your mercy heal us all. — Henry Twells

I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied. — Hilaire Belloc

I am sorry, for whatever it's worth... I was trying to do the right thing. - Blythe — Rachel Hawkins

Kaia darling, Willaim said, nearly leaping over a stand of beef jerky in his haste to reach her. Are you here to fight the strippers who just enjoyed hours of my company? Hardly, she said, tossing her glorious mane of hair over her shoulder with a single flip of her wrist. I'm here to thank them for keeping you occupied. Please tell me they're still with you. — Gena Showalter

No. He won't save my brother. He doesn't love me no matter what he believes. He loves that I need him. But I don't. Not really. Because despite what I thought, what I counted on, he has never been there for me. There is no safety with him. I've always been alone. I just didn't know how isolated I was until now. — Joelle Charbonneau

The Buddha said this: "The object of your practice should first of all be yourself. Your love for the other, your ability to love another person, depends on your ability to love yourself." If you are not able to take care of yourself, if you are not able to accept yourself, how could you accept another person and how could you love him or her? — Thich Nhat Hanh

An engagement is so potent a thing that sooner or later it reduces all who speak of it to this state of cheerful awe. — E. M. Forster

Romantic love is one of the most exciting and fulfilling kinds of love and I think there is potential for it at any stage of your life. — Harrison Ford