quotes about faith and hope

If we all, mountain bikers, cyclists, multinational companies, Jo Public, respected the land like old civilizations we wouldn't get so many punctures. Earth's revenge. ~Jo Burt (Thanks, Jacquie)



After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy. ~John Pierce



True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ~William Penn



If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people - a black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization." This is our challenge and our overwhelming responsibility. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., address to Holt Street Baptist Church, 5 December 1955



I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond. ~Mae West



America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true. ~James T. Farrell



We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. ~Charles F. Kettering



When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. ~George Bernard Shaw



Loyd: "It has to do with keeping things in balance. It's like the spirits have made a deal with us. We're on our own. The spirits have been good enough to let us live here and use the utilities, and we're saying: We know how nice you're being. We appreciate the rain, we appreciate the sun, we appreciate the deer we took. Sorry if we messed up anything. You've gone to a lot of trouble, and we'll try to be good guests."



My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill. ~William Sharp, The Lonely Hunter



Ibid: an abbreviation for ibidem, a Latin word meaning in the same place; it is used in footnotes and bibliographies to refer to a source cited in a previous entry.



Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick. ~Samuel Johnson



Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. ~Christopher Morley, Kitty Foyle



I recently became a Christian Scientist. It was the only health plan I could afford. ~Betsy Salkind



The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrevocable. ~Lord Chesterfield



If men liked shopping, they'd call it research. ~Cynthia Nelms



History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it. ~Henry Steele Commanger, The Nature and the Study of History



A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries



How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. ~Benjamin Disraeli



Music is what feelings sound like. ~Author Unknown