Everville Author Quotes

#1. If forgiveness does take place it will be but an echo of the forgiveness granted by the just and loving God-- the only forgiveness that ultimately matters, because, though we must forgive, in a very real sense no one can either forgive or retain sins 'but God alone.

Miroslav Volf

#2. The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the most quixotic figure in all rowing.

Barry S. Strauss

#3. To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, before we can pave the way for our children to grow up without sin unto salvation.

Brigham Young

#4. Win was flabbergasted when he heard me say to the dog: We don't put our paws on the table while folks are eating, Manch.

Katherine Paterson

#5. Death is required to restore life.

Jonah Books

#6. One of my few virtues - I don't have a lot of them - would be a deep sense of curiosity. I'm interested in how other people live in other places; I'm interested in other cultures.

Anthony Bourdain

#7. Don't let misery bring you down.

Angelique Kidjo

#8. I don't take right decisions, I take decisions and make them right

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#9. What is life to you Jonathan?" he asked

Suren Hakobyan

#10. Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

Terry Southern

#11. The most she knew about gardens was the Bakers' own backyard, which contained one large mulberry tree and a rosebush, plus the window boxes where her mother grew runner beans. She knew there was earth under the plants and that the earth contained worms. She shuddered.

Diana Wynne Jones

#12. Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.

Milan Kundera

#13. How many of you would want to limit your reality, your entire reality, to the experience you now know? You do this when you imagine that your present self is your entire personality, or insist that your identity be maintained unchanged through an endless eternity. (10:43.)

Jane Roberts