Vrumona Quotes & Sayings

The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its intermittences, exceptions and faults, the march from evil to good, from the unjust to the just, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from rottenness to life, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the beginning, the angel at the end. — Victor Hugo

Sometimes bad things are going to happen in your life, and those things can make you stronger if you just learn how to get over them. — Lolo Jones

I don't trust people to accept who I am in process. I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world - so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens. — Donald Miller

As I lay in my bed unable to sleep I challenged Him: Pull out another miracle. Send him back. You can do that. You're God. At that point in my grief, I envisioned how utterly fantastic it would be for others to see what a mighty and awesome God we serve. They could witness a modern-day miracle! I was convinced the only way for this to happen was for God to send Joseph back. It would be a win/win situation! Dozens would come to know Jesus - and - I'd have Joseph home in time for supper. — Shelley Ramsey

But if I tell them about dozens and dozens of studies showing that the countries with low rates of heart disease consume low amounts of animal-based foods, and dozens and dozens of studies showing that individuals who eat more whole, plant-based foods get less heart disease, and I go on to document still more studies showing that a diet low in animal-based foods and high in unprocessed plant-based foods can slow or reverse heart disease, then people are more inclined to pay some attention. — T. Colin Campbell

Those who feel they are clean, go ahead and throw the first rock. If you're clean, if you have not done anything wrong or been accused of anything wrong, go ahead and start the show. — Felipe Alou

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France. — John Dewey

Flag-wavers often say, "If you don't like my country, then leave." But there is nowhere to go. There is no escape. — Jack Donovan

The detective seemed to remember reading that advertisers used Scottish accents to suggest integrity and honesty. The — Robert Galbraith

Do not neglect to bring your revolver, Russell. It may be needed, and it does us no good in your drawer with that disgusting cheese."
"My lovely Stilton; it's almost ripe, too. I do hope Mr. Thomas enjoys it."
"Any riper and it will eat through the woodwork and drop into the room below."
"You envy me my educated tastes."
"That I will not honour with a response. Get out the door, Russell. — Laurie R. King

If a memory wasn't a thing but a memory of a memory of a memory, mirrors set in parallel, then what the brain told you now about what it claimed had happened then would be coloured by what had happened in between. It was like a country remembering its history: the past was never just the past, it was what made the present able to live with itself. — Julian Barnes

We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them. — Thomas Sowell