Edna Woolman Quotes

#1. I suppose that one of the greatest benefits of studying Isaiah is the process of studying Isaiah. Searching the scriptures puts you in a pondering, searching frame of mind in which inspiration can come, allowing you to find ways to apply scriptural truths to your life.

John Bytheway

#2. Create expectations to fulfil them.

Robert Bresson

#3. In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.

James Burgh

#4. Ask yourself always: am I harmoniously put together, am I appropriately clad for the deed at hand, and am I free of non-essentials?

Edna Woolman Chase

#5. A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.

John Holdren

#6. Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.

John Lancaster Spalding

#7. Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such
a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.

Oscar Wilde

#8. Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees?

William Least Heat-Moon

#9. I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.

Dylan Moran

#10. Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

Edna Woolman Chase

#11. Listen to that little voice inside you. Sometimes it can whisper meaningful words of wisdom and make more sense than the deafening noise of opinions and judgements outside.

Roopleen

#12. Fashion is general. Style is individual.

Edna Woolman Chase

#13. Only grace-large doses, frequently displayed, released-will restore the wounded.

Charles R. Swindoll

#14. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.

Allan Bloom

#15. In any case, community is not about perfect people. It is about people who are bonded to each other, each of whom is a mixture of good and bad, darkness and light, love and hate.

Jean Vanier

#16. Keep in mind that the languages that you choose now will be the ones that you orchestrate mostly from home. There's no reason that your child can't take advantage of opportunities to learn a third language (or even more) in the future.

Naomi Steiner