Herbert Stoddard Quotes

#1. Power is a tricky thing, mija. It can lift you up high on its wings and up into the sky where you feel invincible. But sometimes you forget the bigger thing that makes you fly. Without God, without love, you fall. You stop being grateful and humble, and you fall. pg. 230

Laura Resau

#2. Most people prepare for travels by reading about their destination; it always seemed an odd approach to me. I find it much easier and more pleasant to focus with the sights and smells of a place rattling around in my mind.

Michael Specter

#3. It is only through the radical defile of speech that we fall into the illusion that language is a register of conscious construction

Lacan Jacques

#4. I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.

Daniel Inouye

#5. The point is that we can never take God by surprise. We can never anticipate him. He always makes the first move. He is always there 'in the beginning'.

John R.W. Stott

#6. Strong-willed heart, always makes me feel so touched.
It reminds me about some 'fall and rise again' in my life.

Toba Beta

#7. As Christians, we should never be astounded or shaken at the hostility of the world toward us or the extent to which it will labor to thwart our progress in Christ.

Anonymous

#8. Ivan had contrived somehow in the dark of night to replace every watermelon in the watermelon patch with a gravestone, and every gravestone in the engraver's lot with a watermelon

Kristin Cashore

#9. Loss takes as much as love does, sometimes more

David Levithan

#10. At first I did adore a twinkling star
But now I worship a celestial sun

William Shakespeare

#11. Things that Shane doesn't want on his grave:
(1.) I thought it wasn't loaded.
(2.) Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank.
(3.) Killed over Ice Cream

Rachel Caine