Wiersma Painting Quotes & Sayings

[God] wants to help you overcome the bitterness and anger that you feel, and He wants to encourage you ... He knows that anger and depression will never help you deal with your problems - they only make them worse. — Billy Graham

Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'. — Rupert Sanders

Minimum wage increases. The Nobel Prize economist Milton Friedman has observed that the minimum wage is "one of the most ... anti-black laws on the statute books" because it destroys entry level jobs for second paycheck earners, teens, and other unskilled workers. — David Horowitz

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time. — Elbert Hubbard

I'm sorry. I told you I'm not good with words."
Wrapping my arms around his neck, I pressed my lips to his and spoke against them, "You are perfect, Lev. Your words are honest and colored beautifully. You make me feel things I thought were lost to me. And I'm in danger of losing my heart to you. — Belle Aurora

And as to being quick, why, bless you! That is only a matter of habit; if you get into the habit of being quick, it is just as easy as being slow; easier, I should say; in fact, it don't agree with my health to be hulking about over a job twice as long as it need take. Bless you! I couldn't whistle if I crawled over my work as some folks do! — Anna Sewell

History is a symptom of our disease — Mao Zedong

A clever woman succeeds in concealing her jealousy. Otherwise we men always feel so sure of ourselves ... — Kerstin Gier

Most of them have, of course, an agenda; mostly born-again Christians looking to save my soul. I suppose the assumption is made that because I'm in here I must be a 'sinner' in need of salvation, and they would be glad to sell me a ticket to heaven, hawking this salvation like peanuts at a ballgame. I do appreciate their charity, but I could really do without the condescension. They have been so nice I would hate to break it to them that I really prefer Nietzsche to the Bible. — Eric Rudolph

Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes. — Malik Bendjelloul

Here's what girlfriends do for you: they provide the reality check. They are the ones who tell you when you have spinach between your teeth or when your ass looks fat in a pair of jeans or when you're being a bitch. They tell you, and there's no drama or agenda, like there would be if the message had come from your husband. They tell you the truth because you need to hear it, but it doesn't alter the bond between you. — Jodi Picoult

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did. — Roger Bannister

I guess what I'm really trying to say is that you used to shatter easily. But
now you've become less brittle. — Sherry Thomas

Mothers are programmed to teach the fit. They are unequipped to listen to pleas, to alter their patterns. Mothers know how to nurse and nurture those who they have hope for - they coo over babies with infections they can help heal, they give advice for things they know, they protect from the dangers they know how to fear. But once their baby becomes so hurt the mother doesn't know how to heal her, she neglects because she doesn't know better. The tricks she knows don't work, she fears, and, eventually, when she is so lost she feels hopeless, she abandons. — Aspen Matis

Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan. — Saint John Chrysostom