Jomarie Pettit Quotes

#1. I grew up in a very small town where nearly everyone knew each other, and odds were that whatever you said about a person would make it back to them by nightfall - something incomers learned, to their frequent embarrassment.

Susanna Kearsley

#2. The truth is, it is enough to live in this country. Just to live. Work isn't necessary for the salvation of the soul.

Willa Cather

#3. coming home" meant, for me, walking step by step toward the One who awaits me with open arms and wants to hold me in an eternal embrace. I

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#4. Remain pure, not in order to be noble or strong but to be yourself. To give your love is to lose love.

Abdicate from life so as not to abdicate from yourself.

Pessoa, Fernando

#5. One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations.

Marilynne Robinson

#6. Mitt Romney turned businesses around in the private sector. He saved the Winter Olympics.

Scott Walker

#7. The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.

Douglas Adams

#8. Being wrong is acceptable, but staying wrong is totally unacceptable.

Jack D. Schwager

#9. Right ain't changed in all these years. From my maternal grandmother, Pearl C. Parker

Deborah L. Parker

#10. Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine.

Dido Armstrong