Zhavia Ward Quotes & Sayings

Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect. — John Piper

The smallest flowers still have to stretch to bloom. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Suppose a would-be writer can't begin? I really believe there are many excellent writers who have never written because they never could begin. This is especially the case of people of great sensitiveness, or of people of advanced education. Professors suffer most of all from this inhibition. Many of them carry their unwritten books to the grave. They overestimate the magnitude of the task, they overestimate the greatness of the final result. A child in a prep school will write the History of Greece and fetch it home finished after school. "He wrote a fine History of Greece the other day," says his fond father. Thirty years later the child, grown to be a professor, dreams of writing the History of Greece
the whole of it from the first Ionic invasion of the Aegean to the downfall of Alexandria. But he dreams. He never starts. He can't. It's too big. Anybody who has lived around a college knows the pathos of those unwritten books. — Stephen Leacock

The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually. — Walter Ulbricht

Doing the eco-accessory thing doesn't have to mean giving up designer labels. In fact, quite the opposite. — Sheherazade Goldsmith

A man without his word is not a man. — Ben Tolosa

Make good use of your time, it flies fast. — Ovid

As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace? — John Milton

Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest. — Euripides

Business associates? Ouch. That's worse than friends — Julie James

If truth is the end of life happiness is a mode of it, to be cherished in its brief and tremulous moment. — F Scott Fitzgerald

If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog. — Saul Bellow

Everybody knew what she was called, but nobody anywhere knew her name. Disremembered and unaccounted for, she cannot be lost because no one is looking for her, and even if they were, how can they call her if they don't know her name? — Toni Morrison

SCOTTY: She's all yours, sir. All systems automated and ready. A chimpanzee and two trainees could run her! CAPTAIN KIRK: Thank you, Mr. Scott. I'll try not to take that personally. - STAR TREK — Timothy Ferriss

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a match. The two kids both have hand-me-down names of the ill repute." Jesse turned to me. "But actually, I win. You're named after a madam. I'm named after a murderer. So mine's worse. — Ruta Sepetys