Vormen Van Quotes & Sayings

measuring tools into a tall cabinet at the back of the large, industrial kitchen. I returned for the six-quart mixer, hoisting it in my arms and stumbling under its weight. The click of her heels grew closer and I knew I didn't have time to hide the machine like I wanted, so I lowered it to the ground and covered it with my apron, spinning around just as my momma appeared in the doorway. "Thank goodness." Her hands were — Penny Reid

Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important place in a monk's life, because you cannot begin to do anything unless you have some idea what you are trying to do. — Thomas Merton

Scott Buchanan ... taught me that the questions that can be answered are not worth asking. — Milton Mayer

Preacher, keep your knees on the ground & your eyes on the throne. — Leonard Ravenhill

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done. — Edmund Burke

What are the purposes and priorities of teaching? ... First, to inspire. Second, to challenge. Third, and only third, to impart information. — J. Michael Straczynski

Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds withother nationalities, having quite different philosophy about pleasure, about punishment, about life, and about death. At least it does not leave one pusillanimous. — Edna O'Brien

I like a little chaos. I think that's really true for my inner Buddha. I think I like a little nutsy. Maybe I can't take total peace. — Meredith Vieira

I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb. — Herman Melville