Wattled Jacana Quotes & Sayings

All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies. — Anne Carson

Never paint your wife or your mother. — George W. Bush

It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they use Jesus as a vehicle for achieving all of that. Like, if you give a tithe, He'll make you rich. Why? Are you hacking Him off or something? If you give a tithe, you get rid of ten percent of the root of all evil. You should be giving ninety percent. Cause God can handle money better than we can. — Rich Mullins

Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights. — Martha Plimpton

Don't let the poor choices you made negate the years you spent loving him. — Christine Brae

All people are, at heart, egocentric. We exist at the center of our own little universes. We believe that we are living out our lives as best we can, and that we have our own sphere of influence which exists of both friends and enemies. They in turn have their own friends and enemies with whom they interact. That is a given. But we, each of us, tend to put ourselves ahead of others because we believe that we are significant. We must attend to our own needs, desires, wants, and aspirations, because each of us is our own greatest priority. No one else cares for us as much as we do, no one else can exist in our skin. We think we're important. It is where our sense of self-worth comes up, where our egos reside, where "we" are. And we believe that each of our lives means something. — Peter David

I know some people need counseling but not everyone can afford it. — Pattie Mallette

Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign. — Mae West

asking small questions to dispel fear and inspire creativity thinking small thoughts to develop new skills and habits - without moving a muscle taking small actions that guarantee success solving small problems, even when you're faced with an overwhelming crisis bestowing small rewards to yourself or others to produce the best results recognizing the small but crucial moments that everyone else ignores — Robert Maurer

you can be what you want to be — John Elliot

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. — Arne Jacobsen

God, either you come down here tonight and touch me, or I'm going to die and come up there and touch you. — Rodney Howard-Browne

On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the diversity of life would grow exponentially until the carrying capacity, however defined, was reached. The fossil record on Earth, however, tells a very different story. — Simon Conway Morris

if at first you dont succeed quit and let God take over — Tim Stone