Waterspout Quotes & Sayings

One of the greatest mistakes we make is to idolize the artist rather than the art. — Charles F. Glassman

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! — Dante Alighieri

Prayer is not about a list; prayer is about a lifestyle. — Dillon Burroughs

God ... Please keep my eyes focused on the only target worth hitting - Christlikeness! — Johnny Hunt

I was almost a wife but lost the man. I was almost recognisable as a friend. And then I wasn't. The nights when I flicked off the bedside lamp and found myself in the heedless, lonely dark. The times I thought, with a horrified twist, that none of this was a gift. Suzanne got the redemption that followed a conviction ... I got the snuffed-out story of the bystander, a fugitive without a crime, half hoping and half terrified that no one was ever coming for me. — Emma Cline

And that which is often said of the volume and power of the human voice was then apparent to the eye. For ravens which chanced to be flying overhead fell down into the stadium. The cause of this was the rupture of the air; for when the voice is borne aloft loud and strong, the air is rent asunder by it and will not support flying creatures, but lets them fall, as if they were over a vacuum, unless, indeed, they are transfixed by a sort of blow, as of a weapon, and fall down dead. It is possible, too, that in such cases there is a whirling motion of the air, which becomes like a waterspout at sea with a refluent flow of the surges caused by their very volume. — Plutarch

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. — Asa Gray

I have a little half-Asian butt, and the more I work out, the more I try to get it bigger, it's just going to get flatter and harder. — Chrissy Teigen

Love, if you love me, lie next to me. Be for me, like rain, the getting out of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi- lust of intentional indifference. Be wet with a decent happiness. — Robert Creeley

Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned. — Quintilian

I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework. — Mike Shinoda

you need to make changes in yourself and your environment, don't dwell on your past. You can't change it. Don't worry about your future. You can't control it. Focus on the current moment and what you can do now. 6. — John C. Maxwell

I'm glad I do not have a rebellious nature, so I am not forced to do things just because others do not want. — Luigina Sgarro

No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself, as a mariner by the rattling of his cannon can dissipate the impending waterspout. — Benjamin Disraeli

As life hits us head-on we can respond with resentment, resignation, acceptance, or welcome. We are the living examples of our responses. — Billy Graham