Weingardt Nursery Quotes & Sayings

Isaac's face lit up. The phrase was literally true in his case, for his cheeks and the tip of his nose shone rosily and his blue eyes were suddenly as flooded with light as sapphires held to the sun. In the country of his mind the advancing shadows were halted and rolled back upon themselves like the fen mists when the wind suddenly freshened from the sea. He glowed and the Dean felt a pang of sadness. What would this man have been, what would he have done, had he not been so wrenched from the true by the sufferings of his boyhood? Yet perhaps without them he would not have been Bella's fairy man. Such twistings sometimes forced out poison but at other times honey. It depended what was at the heart of a man. — Elizabeth Goudge

The true contrast between science and religion is that science unites the world and makes it possible for people of widely differing backgrounds to work together and to cooperate. Religion, on the other hand, by its very claim to know "The Truth" through "revelation," is inherently divisive and a creator of separatism and hostility. — Hermann Bondi

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There's a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going. — Ben Shapiro

Aristotle wrote that the human soul is purged by the fear and compassion that tragedy evokes. — Jo Nesbo

I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it. — James Taylor

It is federal, because it is the government of States united in a political union, in contradistinction to a government of individuals, that is, by what is usually called, a social compact. To express it more concisely, it is federal and not national because it is the government of a community of States, and not the government of a single State or Nation. — John C. Calhoun

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand. — Ellen Forney

Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not. — Robert A. Heinlein

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community. — Hal Sparks

I believe the only thing that we really have control over is our attitude. If we focus on the positive things in our lives and learn how to cope with all the surprises, we will be happier people. — Brandon Jenner

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles. — Louis D. Brandeis

Love had to be deeper than that, than a glance over tea, which was indicative but not dispositive. — Michael Callahan

On some level, every story draws something from life experiences. Most of the time, it's just a matter of me pulling bits and pieces of my own past to help give characters or settings a little more life. — Cullen Bunn