Flecknoe Village Quotes

#1. I am fat and flabby and that Dr. J. I. Packer is right when he says, "Here then is the root cause of our moral flabbiness; we have neglected God's Law."3

Alistair Begg

#2. An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free.

William Bolitho

#3. The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital.

Ryan White

#4. We live and work in a world that carries preoccupations about money, but what does the soul care about such things?

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

#5. If a model is going to make some shoes, she's going to make them comfortable.

Karen Elson

#6. When you behold an aspect for whose constant gloom and frown you cannot account, whose unvarying cloud exasperates you by its apparent causelessness, be sure that there is a canker somewhere, and a canker not the less deeply corroding because concealed.

Charlotte Bronte

#7. Utopianism is, as Plato taught us at the outset, the fire with which we must play because it is the only way we can find out what we are. We need to criticize false understandings of Utopia, but the easy way out provided by realism is deadly.

Allan Bloom

#8. One day, I'll run away to you.

Katharine McMahon

#9. Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.

Victor Hugo

#10. Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.

Thomas A Kempis

#11. Maybe when she'd been eighteen it was a quality she might have laughed at, but at twenty-eight, dependability had turned into something of an aphrodisiac.

Jill Mansell

#12. Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.

Yasmin Mogahed

#13. When I started singing, I weighed 153 pounds. I weigh 184 now. I haven't gotten any taller, but I'm putting on a little more weight.

Elvis Presley

#14. With his fantastic mane of multicoloured hair, Phury should have been in Hollywood's league with the ladies, but he'd stuck with his vow of celibacy. There was room for one and only one love in his life, and it had been slowly killing him for years.

J.R. Ward

#15. A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.

Charles Marion Russell