Top 39 John Townsend Quotes
#1. Though your experience may indicate that God has forgotten you or has left you alone, He is on your side. He is the God of grace, and He is actively working on your behalf.
John Townsend
#2. The speckled sky is dim with snow,
The light flakes falter and fall slow;
Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale,
Silently drops a silvery veil; And all the valley is shut in
By flickering curtains gray and thin.
John Townsend Trowbridge
#3. Kate, like many other people, found herself a fascinating topic, and when encouraged was very willing to hold forth.
John Rowe Townsend
#4. Men are polished, through act and speech, Each by each, As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach.
John Townsend Trowbridge
#5. He questioned with jealousy as he spun her around the
Melody Anne
#6. Emotions, or feelings, have a function. They tell us something. They are a signal....Anger tells us that our boundaries have been violated. Much like a nation's radar defense system, angry feelings serve as an "early warning system" telling us we're in danger of being injured or controlled.
John Townsend
#7. Entitlement is: The man who thinks he is above all the rules. The woman who feels mistreated and needs others to make it up to her.
John Townsend
#8. One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irritably into the middle of the flames, which made Thor feel slightly better and made all the dwarfs feel much worse.
Neil Gaiman
#9. If you will observe, it doesn't take A man of giant mould to make A giant shadow on the wall; And he who in our daily sight Seems but a figure mean and small, Outlined in Fame's illusive light, May stalk, a silhouette sublime, Across the canvas of his time.
John Townsend Trowbridge
#11. A flower more sacred than far-seen success Perfumes my solitary path; I find Sweet compensation in my humbleness, And reap the harvest of a quiet mind.
John Townsend Trowbridge
#12. On turf and curb and bower-roof
The snow-storm spreads its ivory woof;
It paves with pearl the garden-walk;
And lovingly around the tatter'd stalk
And snivering stem its magic weaves
A mantle fair as lily-leaves.
John Townsend Trowbridge
#13. With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows.
John Townsend Trowbridge
#14. I keep some portion of my early gleam; Brokenly bright, like moonbeams on a river, It lights my life, a far illusive dream, Moves as I move, and leads me on forever.
John Townsend Trowbridge
#15. Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it with effect, those who take the other will of course be hostile in proportion as they feel that effect.
Thomas Jefferson
#16. Our days, our deeds, all we achieve or are, Lay folded in our infancy; the things Of good or ill we choose while yet unborn.
John Townsend Trowbridge
#17. The best people in the world aren't those who never fail - but those who fail and learn something from it. I hope that your goal in life isn't to slide safely into death not having screwed up much.
John Townsend
#18. It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past ...
C.S. Lewis
#19. Women think black is the most flattering color, but they're wrong. Pink adds a cosmetic-like radiance and warmth. Black drains the skin of color; pink delights the eye.
Oscar De La Renta
#21. I'm not looking for starters, I'm looking for finishers.
John Townsend
#22. Life is simply better when we are with others, and worse when we are isolated. God designed us to be connected, and life breaks down when we are not.
John Townsend
#23. Just dandelion leaves trod all down his path with this going away and the coming back. Some great ending it feels like. For now though, just go through his broke door.
Eimear McBride
#24. Be the kind of person you want to be attracted to. You will find that you are less and less drawn to people with difficult character issues and more desirous to find people who are full of grace, safety, acceptance, and a hunger to grow.
John Townsend
#25. The birds can fly, an' why can't I? Must we give in, says he with a grin, That the bluebird an' phoebe are smarter 'n we be?
John Townsend Trowbridge
#26. The tears of the young who go their way, last a day; But the grief is long of the old who stay.
John Townsend Trowbridge
#27. Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.
James Sinegal
#28. The central message of the Bible is about God redeeming a humanity that is in trouble and suffering.
John Townsend
#30. Leading from your inner world ultimately produces better results in your leadership.
John Townsend
#31. Traditionally, people are always supposed to feel empty, devastated, when a god leaves them. Nobody seems to wonder how the god might feel. Leaving the only people who almost understood.
Peter S. Beagle
#33. Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated. Only when all of our weaknesses are accepted as part of our humanity can our negative, broken self-images be transformed.
Jean Vanier
#34. Our tendency is to be strong, self-sufficient, and dependent on our own willpower, but rather than try harder, we should reach out to the God who is all-powerful ...
John Townsend
#35. Darius was clearly of the opinion
That the air is also man's dominion,
And that, with paddle or fins or pinion,
We soon or late
Shall navigate
The azure, as now we sail the sea.
John Townsend Trowbridge
#36. It's fun to grow with a character over the course of a TV series. Video games are usually a much more condensed process.
Laura Bailey
#37. Of nothing comes nothing: springs rise not above Their source in the far-hidden heart of the mountains: Whence then have descended the Wisdom and Love That in man leap to light in intelligent fountains?
John Townsend Trowbridge
#38. The harmony of the universe knows only one musical form - the legato; while the symphony of number knows only its opposite - the staccato. All attempts to reconcile this discrepancy are based on the hope that an accelerated staccato may appear to our senses as a legato.
Tobias Dantzig
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