Unstrangered Quotes & Sayings

I'm planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots. — Andrea Koehle Jones

We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm conscience without possessing virtue. — Lambert Of Maastricht

As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common. — Roland Barthes

Your body will heal itself, through gentle and peaceful cooperation with the inherent wisdom and intelligence within. — Bryant McGill

You can't make the other fellow feel important in your presence if you secretly feel that he is a nobody — Les Giblin

The whole point of what Jesus was up to was that he was doing close up, in the present, what he was promising long-term in the future. And what he was promising for that future and doing in the present was not saving souls for a disembodied eternity, but rescuing people from the corruption and decay of the way the world presently is so that they could enjoy, already in the present, that renewal of creation which is God's ultimate purpose
and so they could thus become colleagues and partners in that large project. — N. T. Wright

Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush. — John Gibbon

He knew how to construct a song out of the nothing of day-to-day life and how to sing that nothing into a song so beautiful that it could sustain the vision of a whole and better world. — Kate DiCamillo

If he had been one of Xcor's males, the Brother might well have had to be killed so that Xcor could retain his prime position: It was a basic tenent of leadership that one eliminated those who presented a potential challenge to one's position ... although it wasn't as if his band were incompetents - after all, one had to eliminate the weak as well.
The Bloodletter had taught him that and so much more. — J.R. Ward