Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Fuller

The rains are rhythmic, coming religiously in the afternoons (after lunch has been eaten but before tea, so that the nights are washed clean-black with bright pinpoints of silver starlight hanging over a restless, grateful earth).

Alexandra Adornetto

There was nothing else to do but call upon the Creator, praying, begging, pleading, bargaining—anything to make him protect Xavier. I couldn’t have him ripped away from me like that. I could survive emotional turmoil; I could survive the most intense physical torture. I could survive Armageddon and holy fire raining down upon the earth, but I could not survive without him.

John Hammond

more rain at the end of the week, but nothing on the scale of what we have seen.

Charles Spurgeon

As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.

Andrew Benelli

We won't be able to do much until spring, when the rains subside.

Diane Ravitch

We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them

Dennis Weaver

When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.

Denis Johnson

After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.

Denis Johnson

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

Alexandra Fuller

People who disagree with His Excellency, the President for Life and 'Chief of Chiefs,' are frequently found to be the victims of car crashes (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or dead in their beds of heart attacks (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or the recipients of some not-quite-fresh seafood (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets).

Albert Schweitzer

Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles.

Albert Schweitzer

When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts.

Albert Schweitzer

Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.

Albert Schweitzer

If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are minor compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely released.

Sathya Baba

Make your life a rose that speaks silently in the language of the heart.

Sathya Baba

Make the heart big and the mind pure.

Lois Frankel

Lela is the heart and soul of this city, ... And she is a... well, let's put it this way: She's an independent, strong-willed, very innovative person.

Source Unknown

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

Chantal Kreviazuk

Making sleep happen is a must- anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to.

Gerald Howarth

Liam Fox has most directly addressed the policy issues of concern to me, particularly the broken society.

Terence Courtney

Let?s put all this money, effort, and resources into something that?s already broken that serves the vast majority of people here in the city, and that?s MARTA.

Peter Akinola

Let there be no illusions, ... The communion is broken and fragmented. The communion will break.

William Laud

Lord, I am coming as fast as I can: I know I must pass through the shadow of death before I can come to Thee; but it is but umbra mortis, a mere shadow of death... Thou, by thy merits and passion, hath broken through the jaws of death.

Martin King

Love is the only cement that can hold this broken community together.When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs fo my brothers.

Katie Quinn

Many people were broken that day. I was broken.

Steve Fossett

So far there have been few problems. A broken winch was readily repaired by the crew, as was a batten problem in the mainsail. Sailing winds have been excellent and at one point we were flying a hull,

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Much of the marble coldness of Hester's impression was to be attributed to the circumstance that her life had turned, in a great measure, from passion and feeling, to thought. Standing alone, as to any dependent on society, and with little Pearl to be guided and protected- alone, and hopeless of retrieving her position, even as she had not scorned to consider it desirable, she cast away the fragments of a broken chain.