Weiler Quotes & Sayings

Like a sudden thaw in the middle of winter, grace happens at unexpected moments. It stops us short, catches the breath, disarms. If we manipulate it, try to control it, somehow earn it, that would not be grace. Yet not everyone has tasted of that amazing grace, and not everyone believes in it. — Philip Yancey

It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all. — Jeff Goldblum

I'm becoming too honest for my own good these days. — Brenda Weiler

Being offended by things is the world's big hobby at the moment. It's almost taken over from wearing goatee beards. — Douglas Adams

There's not enough time to say what I feel. — Brenda Weiler

You will do well in everything you seek out to do ... because you don't give up. Others make mistakes, fall down, lose heart, and you do too, but you don't give up. You don't lose yourself in the process. You keep moving forward and pushing for only the very best' (Miss Shaw to Daisy, 'Friendship on Fire', p. 446) — Danielle Weiler

When you are being what you really are you absolutely flourish in the midst of absolutely everything. — John De Ruiter

Everyone starts out with a clean slate to soil.' (Daisy, 'Friendship on Fire', p. 280) — Danielle Weiler

Teenagers are in the throes of learning the biggest lesson of all: life isn't simple, it isn't black and white. It's multiple and varied shades of grey. If you mix these shades of grey you might end up getting close to black or white, but in the end, it's the darkening of themselves around the edges and the ways in which they bend and break that will make them more wholesome people; people that others will want to be around and who will contribute greatly to society when given the awesome opportunity. — Danielle Weiler

Henry

We met on an airplane (economy class) and kissed most of the flight home. Over the Atlantic, we decided to fall in love. When the plane touched down at JFK, he hadn't changed his mind. When he carried me over the threshold of my apartment, no Mrs. Wattlesbrook lurked in the shadows. While he was in the kitchen, I picked Pride and Prejudice out of my (miraculously) sill-living houseplant and tucked it into a harmless spot beside all the other DVDs, spine out and proud.
We're going to order in tonight. — Shannon Hale

The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft. — Abe Ajay

How I ever could have thought he was boring or easy was beyond me' (Daisy, 'Friendship on Fire', p. 471). — Danielle Weiler

You never get out of life alive. — Roy Weiler

And each time the cowardice that deters us from every difficult task, every important enterprise, has urged me to leave the thing alone, to drink my tea and to think merely of the worries of today and my hopes for tomorrow, which can be brooded over painlessly. — Marcel Proust

There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful. — Theodore Roosevelt

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do. — Cyril Connolly

There's a moment when all you are is all you are. — Brenda Weiler

Memories are like Diamonds. They are precious and and wonderful things. Cherish each one. — Roy Carl Weiler Sr.

When I start thinking in the batter's box, that's when I get into trouble. — Dan Uggla

As you progress towards enlightenment you will find that you become a winner at anything, not because you are so concerned about winning anymore. You are just concerned about the pursuit of excellence. — Frederick Lenz

You independent women these days don't need to play by the old rules anymore. Embrace it. Chase your man. But be sensible.' (Daisy's Nanna, 'Friendship on Fire', p. 400) — Danielle Weiler

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to it himself. — A. H. Weiler