Wortley Hall Quotes & Sayings

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home. — Mary Kay Blakely

Moses, who said when the Red Sea parted, What the hell was that? I was just going in for a dip! Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

Help me, Mikey, she wanted to say. I'm afraid. More afraid than you'd ever believe.' And he'd take her hand and they'd fly across the rooftops and up into space and sit on some planet and watch a double sunrise or maybe a star being born or some other event that no human had ever seen, her head on his shoulder, his arm around her. And she'd tell him everything. — Jenny Downham

I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all. — Cate Marvin

Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close and nurturing, not distant and authoritarian. Fatherhood as more than bread winning. Fatherhood as new-and-improved masculinity. Fathers unafraid of feelings. Fathers without sexism. Fatherhood as fifty-fifty parenthood, undistorted by arbitrary gender divisions or stifling social roles. — David Blankenhorn

Serendipity awakens the dutiful wife to personal growth when a
transformational opportunity comes her way. — Jean Harlan

These criminals represent us. One of them recognized Jesus for who he was and received him; Jesus promised that when he died he would be in heaven with him. The other man rejected Jesus and closed his heart. Unlike the first criminal, when he died he didn't go to heaven. He went to hell. In that sense, these two men on either side of Jesus are just like every person. We either embrace Christ as our Savior and spend eternity with him, or we reject him and say, 'I don't believe it. I'll have nothing to do with.' And these people spend eternity separated from him. — James MacDonald

Impulses sometimes have logical roots and ought to be given in to. — Susan Moody

Tibet is not like Kuwait. Kuwait has oil. — Dalai Lama

I see perfection in things that are likely considered imperfections by others. — Jessica Park

Even if we've never been inside a synagogue or a mosque or a church - even if we have, and vowed never to go back - deep down in our striving hearts, beneath all the ambition and the fear, we suspect that we were made for a different sort of life. — Heather Choate Davis

When you can love yourself, then your heart is open to give and receive love. — Daveda Gruber

So why don't nurses do home visits to Americans with acute conditions? Hospitals aren't paid for it. — Robert Reich