Westerhoff Quotes & Sayings

Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people. — Matthew Henry

Iran has been calling for it for years, and the Arab countries support it. Everyone except the United States and Israel support it. The U.S. won't allow it because it means inspecting Israel's nuclear weapons. The U.S. has continued to block it, and in fact blocked it again just a couple of days ago; it just wasn't widely reported. Iran's nuclear program, as U.S. intelligence points out, is deterrent, and the bottom line is that the U.S. and Israel don't want Iran to have a deterrent. — Noam Chomsky

If you can't stop the waves, go sailing. — Margaret Atwood

God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word. — Aeschylus

Today, Blue thought, is the day I stop listening to the future and start living it instead. — Maggie Stiefvater

Of wisdom there are as many patterns as a loom can weave. Yours is the wisdom of good and kindly heart. Scarce it is and its worth all the greater. — Lloyd Alexander

Don't confuse deformed with cute. — Evelyn Smith

Smith, you don't realize it's a privilege to practice giving presents to others.' The way he did it was charming; there was nothing glittery and Christmasy about it, but almost sad, and sometimes his gifts were old beat-up things but they had the charm of usefulness and sadness of his giving. — Jack Kerouac

It has been said that a man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal. Perhaps he becomes a criminal because he has never ceased to be an animal. — Okakura Kakuzo

To fix and make plausible, the nebulous emotions of my costumed heroins, like diamonds on a sea of dough. — Margaret Atwood

It took a generation for companies to recognise their responsibilities in terms of labour practices and another generation for them to recognise their environmental obligations. — Rebecca MacKinnon

Those who created the structure of the Episcopal Church were, in many cases, the same individuals who had framed and adopted the Constitution of the United States only a few years earlier, so it is not surprising that our structure is very similar. — John H. Westerhoff III