Engelien Pilot Quotes

#1. Of all the old festivals, however, that of Christmas awakens the strongest and most heartfelt associations. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality, and lifts the sprit to a state of hallowed and elevated enjoyment.

Washington Irving

#2. At the core of every religion is the belief that we care for everyone ... It's not too late to help a neighbor in need and to do it with the swiftness, expertise, generosity and love that resides in the best of who we are.

George Clooney

#3. Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.

Rachel Kushner

#4. I love that I live a creative life. It is in the work that I do - acting, writing, and directing. It's also in the mindfulness of every part of my life, from a meal that I prepare for family and friends to putting my imagination to work in a garden.

Regina Taylor

#5. You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary

Frederick Buechner

#6. How horrible to think what we may wish for, lay in anguish for, may be within our reach but we are unable to see them.

D. Morgenstern

#7. Ah, Mr. Ogg! How I like you!" Mr. Owl cheered. "Always ready to break a neck. Good fellow!

M.L. LeGette

#8. Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies, except North Carolina, were on the whole similar to Virginia in these respects.

Carl L. Becker

#9. All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

Richard Whately

#10. If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution.

Eugene V. Debs

#11. There's no gain, without pain.

Benjamin Franklin

#12. Upstate New York in the middle of October. You can't get more beautiful than that.

Paul Reiser

#13. Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.

Oswald Chambers

#14. Getting rid of dragons is not at all in my line, but I will do my best to think about it. Personally I have no hopes at all, and wish I was safe back at home.

J.R.R. Tolkien