Betsy Landin Quotes
Everything happens for a reason, and sometimes, that might be difficult to understand, especially when things don't go the way we plan or expect. If we choose to see things positively and trust in God, he will fulfill his purpose in our lives.
Quotes to Explore
-
The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
-
We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.
-
For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
-
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
-
You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
-
The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!
-
I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.
-
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
-
You can't say the public likes generic characters. Give others a chance, go for a more rooted and honest characterisation, take some risk, and then let the public choose.
-
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
-
Emasculation does seem to be a theme in the roles that I choose.
-
I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.
-
When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.
-
Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.
-
If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.
-
No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.
-
Every single note on this album is there for a reason.
-
Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
-
When the history of the 20th century is finally written, one of its key features will be the wanton slaughter of more than 170 million people, not in war, but by their own government. The governments that led in this slaughter are the former USSR (65 million) and the Peoples Republic of China (35-40 million). The point to remember is that these governments were the idols of America's leftists. Part of the reason for these and other tyrannical successes was because the people were first disarmed.
-
To become a leader, you must first become a human being.
-
Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
-
They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.
-
Everything happens for a reason, and sometimes, that might be difficult to understand, especially when things don't go the way we plan or expect. If we choose to see things positively and trust in God, he will fulfill his purpose in our lives.
