Wiand Obituary Quotes & Sayings

Mrs. Trotter made a sincere though wrong sound, while opening her handbag to look for help. — Patrick White

There's nothing worse than a smartass who pretends not to understand hyperbole. — Steven Brust

Jesus is deeply connected to the earth on which he walks. He observes the forces of nature, learns from them, teaches about them, and reveals that the God of Creation is the same God who sent him to give good news to the poor, sight to the blind, and freedom to the prisoners. He walks from village to village, sometimes alone and sometimes with others; as he walks, he meets the poor, the beggars, the blind, the sick, the mourners, and those who have lost hope. He listens attentively to those with whom he walks, and he speaks to them with the authority of a true companion on the road. He remains very close to the ground. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

It was clear to me from the start that I would need to combine both a medical degree with a research qualification, to keep at the cutting edge of medical science and technology. — Susan Lim

The day will come when the people will make so insistent their demand that there be peace in the world that the Governments will get out of the way and let them have peace. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more. — Roger Ebert

The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects. This is the discipline that deals with the universe's divine revolutions, the stars' motions, sizes, distances, risings and settings ... for what is more beautiful than heaven? — Nicolaus Copernicus

The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes. — Lorrie Fair

Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be properly tied, one is always producing new ones. Time, like the sea, unties all knots. Judgements on people are never final, they emerge from summings up which at once suggest the need of a reconsideration. Human arrangements are nothing but loose ends and hazy reckoning, whatever art may otherwise pretend in order to console us. — Iris Murdoch