Verna Quotes & Sayings

If a prayer is the way we talk to God, if a million people pray, that's got to be one big message. — Tony Verna

Discipline is the concrete that allows you to be creative.' - Verna Gibson — Stephanie Winston

As with instant replay, NFL Films' use of slow motion, camera angles and the narration of Facenda was not just a technical breakthrough but a conceptual breakthrough. — Tony Verna

but in today's world with women's rights and equality being such an integral part of life I think it is an important observation, because when I look around me for a role model of a woman who has succeeded as a woman, all I see are women who are clones of the men. I can't help but wonder what will happen one day when women start playing by their own rules. — Verna Van Schaik

The ice was not only broken; it was shivered into a million fragments — P.G. Wodehouse

I figured there's nobody who's going to beat me or shoot me or crucify me. I can't help if people don't like me up there in Washington. I've got a district that I respect, and I think it respects me. — Ralph Hall

The 1990 'Goodwill Games' can be another indication that the television world is not divided between commercial and cable. If the viewer thinks highly of our efforts ... they will have a higher opinion of cable television and TBS. — Tony Verna

In the Zen Way we focus upon each breath, each day, each moment and experience it totally. One complete breath brings the next. — Brenda Shoshanna

Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. — Thomas Perez

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. — Verna Hargrove

Exactitude is the lowest form of pictorial gratification. — S.I. Hayakawa

The secret of life is not to have everything you want, but to want everything you have. — Neale Donald Walsch

That is [liberalism's] goal - to destroy the family [liberals] just made up this gay marriage thing gays are natural conservatives. — Ann Coulter

Follow your goosebumps. — Harmony Verna

The popular idea that Christianity says "human nature" is inherently bad is actually the opposite of what the earliest Christian theologians believed. — Nonna Verna Harrison

Because the Bible is a theological book, it is a book of wrestlings, not a book of answers. In each age the people have to struggle to hear the word of the Lord for their time, and sometimes their hearing is keener than at other times. — Verna J. Dozier

Pop used to say no one knows more tricks than a country midwife." - Verna Krone, The Blue Orchard — Jackson Taylor

The sixth and last eulogy was from Roderick, Hugo and Verna's oldest child. He wrote a three-page tribute to his father, and it was read by the reverend. Even Michael Geismar, a cold-blooded Presbyterian, finally succumbed to his emotions. The — John Grisham

At the outset Verna had not intended to kill anyone. — Margaret Atwood

You know, I'm very photogenic. — Shaquille O'Neal

Went home briefly to get my halter dress for Hero's party, and Mom was waiting for me at the kitchen table. Either she's psychic, or she totally reads my journal, because I haven't said a word about Ben, but somehow she knows something is up.
She was siting with a tray of peanut butter crackers, milk, and about twenty pamphlets on STDs she got from her friend Connie, a nurse at Kaiser. When she started showing me pictures of genital warts, I put my cracker down and said, 'Mom, is this really necessary?' She said, 'Honey, I just want you to understand the risks.'
'Yeah, thanks. Now I'm so traumatized I won't have sex until I'm a senior citizen.'
She smiled. 'Great. I guess I've done my job then. Do you want a sandwich. — Jody Gehrman

I'm surprised you don't know more about magic, Sister Verna. There is a word that is magic. It can accomplish more than you might think. Maybe you have heard it before. It is the word 'please. — Terry Goodkind

Money is a matter of belief, even faith: belief in the person paying us; belief in the person issuing the money he uses or the institution that honours his cheques or transfers. Money is not metal. It is trust inscribed. And it does not seem to matter much where it is inscribed: on silver, on clay, on paper, on a liquid crystal display. — Niall Ferguson

Before replays, football telecasts were filled with dead spots ... It really destroyed the momentum of the telecasts. Replays gave you something to show during the pauses. It seemed to make the game go faster. — Tony Verna

Military commanders choose to overlook the Kenyan proverb that proclaims the power of the flea--"A flea can trouble a lion more than the lion can harm a flea." Most generals would rather be lions than fleas. — William R. Polk

The next innovation, Sensavision, will be like a Walkman attached to your forehead. You won't actually have your head wired because infrared wires will send signals to you. In 2007 Mick Jagger will be on stage, and when Mick feels heat, you'll feel heat. — Tony Verna

..I need to know that I can still breathe properly when he's not around. — Melina Marchetta

When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights. — Jayne Anne Phillips