My Mains Quotes

#1. Well, there doesn't seem anything else for an ex-President to do but to go into the country and raise big pumpkins.

Chester A. Arthur

#2. Fruitfulness may be a better measurement for success than productivity because it is based more in the evaluations of others as to the meaningful role we have played in their lives then in our own importance determined according to the amount of accomplishments we can list.

Karen Burton Mains

#3. My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

Shaun White

#4. Increasingly, Christianity is the object of scorn and ridicule.

David R. Mains

#5. I take criticism to heart. The words hit me literally and it hurts. It can take me a long time to recover from it.

Tina J. Richardson

#6. It is time that we as Christians recognize that it is our beliefs and our values and our way of life that are under attack.

David R. Mains

#7. Given involuntarily, and in an atmosphere of distrust, pain is torture, whatever the motive," suggests David. "But given consensually, between equals, pain can be a most incredible form of love.

Geoff Mains

#8. The heart is a vessel not large enough to sustain love. Kneeling is the proper position for discovering love again.

Karen Burton Mains

#9. I'm not attacking the idea that people live in conglomerations of houses in proximity to one another, sharing the same water mains and the same newspaper delivery boy and so forth. I'm not objecting to that. That could happen with or without homeownership.

Edmund Phelps

#10. The aim of the Revolution is, so far as the interests of China herself are concerned, the restoration of her original frontiers and, in regard to the rest of the world, a gradual advance of all nations from the stage of equality to that of an ideal unity.

Chiang Kai-shek

#11. The leather community is largely anarchistic and shares a healthy distrust of power and arrogance.

Geoff Mains

#12. Hospitality, however, seeks to minister. It says, "This home is not mine. It is truly a gift from my Master. I am His servant and I use it as He desires." Hospitality does not try to impress, but to serve.

Karen Burton Mains

#13. Christians must deplore unfair and deprecating barbs regularly aimed our way.

David R. Mains

#14. Home is the place we should return to with eager spirits, the journey's end we reach with sighs of contentment.

Karen Burton Mains

#15. If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

Elizabeth Blackwell

#16. Couture has a power that ready-to-wear can never have; the attention of les petites mains as they sew; all that love and belief goes into the cloth. That's what you feel when you wear it.

Amanda Harlech

#17. One of the key insights of the systems approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common to all life. Wherever we see life, we see networks.

Fritjof Capra

#18. Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.

Joe Hill

#19. The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.

Ken Wilber

#20. When we understand that He is Lord of our time, we realize that interruptions are of His planning. They become opportunities to serve rather than plagues to keep us from functioning.

Karen Burton Mains

#21. Fix your eyes on eternity with Jesus.

David R. Mains

#22. The evolution has to take place still within us to know ourselves. We can say that unless and until it is put to the mains, it has no meaning. Unless and until we are connected with the whole, we have no meaning.

Nirmala Srivastava

#23. he set up painted foam and resin headstones in the front yard, with names like Hugh R. Next, Ima Goner, Myra Mains, and Ted N. Buried.

Jessica Freeburg

#24. There is an attitude in the media that is dishonestly reinforcing negative stereotypes about Christians.

David R. Mains

#25. The end of the world is easy. We'll survive it, or we won't. But if we do survive, the rest of life is waiting.

Michelle Sagara West

#26. If there's no such thing as a king, why such a fuss?... Silence would have helped her to forget, but each protest made her wish all the more: If only there really were a king!

David R. Mains

#27. So the two went: the boy who had escaped from darkness because he loved light more than he knew and the girl who had become ordinary because she did not realize how wonderful it was to be a princess.

David R. Mains

#28. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
(Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)

Gustave Flaubert

#29. Secular entertaining is a terrible bondage. Its source is human pride. Demanding perfection, fostering the urge to impress, it is a rigorous taskmaster which enslaves. In contrast, Scriptural hospitality is a freedom which liberates.

Karen Burton Mains

#30. The world of tricky-tacky boxes, defined social behaviour, untrammeled egotism, sexism and material acquisitiveness, all powered by insecurity that passes for security, is rarely cajoled, least of all questioned. Much of the magic of of life space contrast has passed out of North American life.

Geoff Mains

#31. So the princess discovered that when one loves a forbidden thing, one loses what ones loves most. This truth is a hard won battle for each who finds it and is always gained by loss.

David R. Mains

#32. But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will become a major something in your life. You just know that theirs will be a life you will enter and become a part of.

Deb Caletti

#33. At 1:00 a.m., they were in the Welsh pub again, having drinks and talking opera and football.

John Grisham

#34. Not long ago, two children in Great Park made a quest: a boy who sought a way to talk through the thing he dreaded most and a girl who feared she had lost the One she loved the most. And together they discovered the Kingdom within and without, which all do, who have the courage to make the quest.

David R. Mains

#35. People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then?

Marion Barry

#36. Once upon a time, there was a King who walked astride his world - here, there and everywhere. He became poor in order to be like the people he loved, and he lived among the outcasts in order to feel their pain.

David R. Mains