Velena Painting Quotes & Sayings

No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing. — Vance Havner

My mind kept thinking its harsh thinky thoughts, but I would distract myself from them gently and say, 'Those are not the truth, those are not trustworthy, those are for entertainment purposes only.' Eventually I had quieter thoughts. — Anne Lamott

I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't. — Muriel Spark

The reason nobody investigates the men who are trading off our freedoms for private enrichment is that they are the very ones who are doing the investigating. — Nelson Algren

When life gives you lemons, throw them at people. HARD. — Thomas J. Montemarano

Even when I'm not onstage singing, there's always music going on in my head. It's a curse and a blessing in a way - it's sitting in bed at night, trying to go to sleep, while the music keeps playing in your head - especially when you're trying to learn something new and you're trying to memorize it and get everything. — Sondra Radvanovsky

My Dad once told me: "you will retire only in your grave!" ; I wish he is alive to ask him "when I will retire searching for my grave! — Hisham Fawzi

I feel that we should not only maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings bur also that is very important to extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment. — Dalai Lama

The clear water the color of deeply steeped tea, surrounded by cattails and gracile grasses. — Lauren Slater

I have one rule when adapting any text: nothing gets added; all the words are the original author's own. But in the ordering and recreation of the story, I can do as I please, and to me, the heart and the point of 'Dracula' is appetite. — Kathe Koja

To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room. — Mason Cooley

God provides for him that trusteth. — George Herbert