Vinner Brooks Quotes & Sayings

We created not only to exist but to fulfill a sacred mission. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Grace had called Ellen a dry little prune who'd be lucky to give it away for free disguised as a hat, let alone sell it or marry it off. — Lyndsay Faye

The Democratic line is that the Republican House does nothing but block and oppose. In fact, it has passed hundreds of bills only to have them die upon reaching the desk of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He has rendered the Senate inert by simply ensuring that any bill that might present a politically difficult vote for his Democratic colleagues never even comes to the floor. — Charles Krauthammer

Sometimes it helps to begin our prayers by confessing we don't feel like praying-and ask God to help us with our preference to be doing something else. — David Jeremiah

A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

Condoms aren't a hundred percent you know," he reminds me calmly. My mind flashes to a certain episode of Friends, and I suddenly feel like yelling out that they should put that on the outside of the box. — Chantal Fernando

Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players. — David Ogden Stiers

These repeated insults were not to be endured by an imperious nobility. Such invitations became less cordial - less frequent - in time they ceased altogether. The widow of the unfortunate Count Berlifitzing was even heard to express a hope "that the Baron might be at home when he did not wish to be at home, since he disdained the company of his equals; and ride when he did not wish to ride, since he preferred the society of a horse." This to be sure was a very silly explosion of hereditary pique; and merely proved how singularly unmeaning our sayings are apt to become, when we desire to be unusually energetic. — Edgar Allan Poe

'The Price Is Right,' it was an honor to be offered it because it's such an American institution. To be able to carry on this tradition with a show that has been on for so long, I thought it was a great opportunity for me. — Drew Carey

Intimacy is a key to greater spiritual authority and power. We need to grow in intimacy to be able to demonstrate God's Will on earth "as it is in heaven" effectively. To the degree that His presence and glory influence us, we will influence those around us. — Paul Yadao

No matter how much madder it may make you, get out of bed forcing a smile. You may not smile because you are cheerful; but if you will force yourself to smile, you'll end up laughing. You will be cheerful because you smile. Repeated experiments prove that when we assume the facial expressions of a given mental mood - any given mood - then that mental mood itself will follow. — Kenneth Good