Lemasson Occasions Quotes

#1. Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

Barbara Walters

#2. It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.

John Frederick Boyes

#4. Adversity tests the strength of endurance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. 1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.

Ron Paul

#6. Story has staying power. We remember the illustrations from Sunday's sermon for months afterward, but by coffee hour we're already struggling to recite the pastor's three main points, despite various acronyms meant to help us.

Sarah Arthur

#7. They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

Thomas Browne

#8. For my mum, to whom I'd turn in a heartbeat.

Non Pratt

#9. Republics, one after another ... have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people ...

Horace Mann

#10. Eighty-five percent of us in this country, by the way, live in coastal areas, so again, Katrina and Rita were not just about New Orleans. There were a lot of lessons that the nation can learn from us if they just pay attention to the things that are going on down here.

Mitch Landrieu

#11. A word meant something only between people, and life's meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form. It was the relational aspect of humans that undergirded meaning.

Paul Kalanithi