Woodthorpe Primary Quotes & Sayings

Prayer is a conversation with God, but prayer is no substitute for work. — Henry D. Moyle

When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray. — Ole Hallesby

Why does everyone look like they've just seen a ghost?" "Our — Julie Ann Walker

With time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind - like most historical evidence. — Susan Sontag

New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist. — Sloane Crosley

People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn't. And some part of me has never quit wishin I could go back. And I cant. I didn't know you could steal your own life. And I didn't know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal. I think I done the best with it I knew how but it still wasn't mine. It never has been. — Cormac McCarthy

The Air Force has it far worse than the Navy in terms of existential fears, primarily due to the rapid rise and unbelievable dissemination of drones, where seemingly now every military unit has their own miniature air wing of what would have recently passed as toys. — Thomas P.M. Barnett

My wife and I came to Canada for the 1994 Commonwealth Games and we really liked the B.C. lifestyle and environment. The following year we applied to become permanent residents. We moved here in 1996 after the Atlanta Olympics. — Jonathan Brown

Devotion means who you are should merge with what you are doing. Otherwise, whatever your activity may be, it will not be of any great significance. — Jaggi Vasudev

Things had changed between them nevertheless. They were children of a time and culture which mistrusted love, 'in love', romantic love, romance in toto, and which nevertheless in revenge proliferated sexual language, linguistic sexuality, analysis, dissection, deconstruction, exposure. They were theoretically knowing: they knew about phallocracy and penisneid, punctuation, puncturing and penetration, about polymorphous and polysemous perversity, orality, good and bad breasts, clitoral tumescence, vesicle persecution, the fluids, the solids, the metaphors for these, the systems of desire and damage, infantile greed and oppression and transgression, the iconography of the cervix and the imagery of the expanding and contracting Body, desired, attacked, consumed, feared. — A.S. Byatt

Everyone can do evil. Some people can be forced to it, and some fight against it, and some don't even need an invitation. — K.J. Charles

I don't mean to be rude'- always a precursor to rudeness of the most offensive sort — Julian Fellowes