Ninian Edwards Quotes

#1. Her brother-in-law Ninian Edwards said bluntly, She could make a bishop forget his prayers.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

#2. You may discover that the very aspects which make it most unendurable are what gives New York its meaning. Its inconsistencies and anonymity, its seeming indifference to you and every other individual is really what makes it a safe haven for individuals everywhere (Maeve Brennan)

Elizabeth Winder

#3. Music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

Pearl S. Buck

#4. Like Solzhenitsyn, I shall return, one bright dusk.

David Mitchell

#5. I married a woman who's not going to take anything. No slips. She's very accountable, and she holds me very accountable.

Joe Nichols

#6. My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one.

Olaf Stapledon

#7. When I looked back, nothing was ever as bad as I thought it would be. In fact, it was usually better than I could have imagined. I learned that we should take each moment both more and less seriously because everything passes. The joyful moments are just as fleeting as the terrible ones.

Noelle Hancock

#8. Anytime we drag our past into the future, we have some grieving to do. When we refuse to grieve, we hang on to the weight of life that slows us down and robs us from finding our lives.

Steve Arterburn

#9. He has so many creations, and yet He never forgets me, but I only have One Creator, and I've forgotten him countless times.

Abd Ar-Rahman Ibn Nasir As-Sa'di

#10. Some people say we can never achieve our special destiny, but I say, in a world of new possibilities guided by goodness, we can and we will.

Bill Bradley