Elizabeth Cunningham Quotes
Today was Mardi Gras, Marvin remembered. The Episcopals called it Shrove Tuesday, Maria had explained to him, because they were supposed to shrive themselves of their sins, which, loosely translated, meant something like: no more jive, time to shrive, almost Lent, time to repent.
Elizabeth Cunningham
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I don't like it when people say, 'You're 45, so you should be wearing X and never Y.' For me, dressing is about attitude, not age.
Lesley Lawson
If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.
Oprah Winfrey
Dates used to be made days or even weeks in advance. Now dates tend to be made the day after. That is, you get a phone call from someone who says, "If anyone asks, I was out to dinner with you last night, okay?"
P. J. O'Rourke
Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond.
Jim Elliot
Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.
Honore de Balzac
At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
William Golding
He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
William Golding
Freedom means the right to assemble, organize, and debate openly. It means not taking citizens away from their loved ones and jailing them, mistreating them, or denying them their freedom or dignity because of peaceful expression of their ideas and opinions.
Hillary Clinton
It seemed important to us that an old drover who walked his cattle a thousand miles or more should be remembered for that achievement.
R. M. Williams
On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen.
Elizabeth Gaskell
How was I supposed to know him when he didn’t let me?
Benjamin Alire Saenz
Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.
Terry Eagleton
In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state.
Brother Yun
Today was Mardi Gras, Marvin remembered. The Episcopals called it Shrove Tuesday, Maria had explained to him, because they were supposed to shrive themselves of their sins, which, loosely translated, meant something like: no more jive, time to shrive, almost Lent, time to repent.
Elizabeth Cunningham
