Quotes About Burano Italy

#1. I am the God of your father Abraham' (Genesis 26:24a). God is not just identifying himself: he is also reaffirming his commitment. As the Lord was with Abraham, so he will be with Isaac. As his power was seen in the life of Abraham, so it will also be seen in the life of Isaac.

Samuel Ngewa

#2. For 'Picture This,' I wanted it to be a drawing book that didn't have any instructions about drawing, beyond the real simple stuff you'd find like in a Bazooka bubblegum wrapper, or in 'Highlights' magazine. I just wanted it to be feelings about looking and seeing and pictures.

Lynda Barry

#3. When you're tempted to be upset, ask yourself 'Is this worth giving up my joy?'

Joel Osteen

#4. A hundred welfare programs, spending more and more billions, lead to chronic budget deficits, which lead to increased paper-money issues, which lead to higher prices.

Henry Hazlitt

#5. We cannot reform institutional racism or systemic policies if we are not actively engaged. It's not enough to simply complain about injustice; the only way to prevent future injustice is to create the society we would like to see, one where we are all equal under the law.

Al Sharpton

#6. Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear.

Robert Shea

#7. To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

Vance Havner

#8. There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#9. People apologize too much, everyone's afraid of giving offence and it leads to literature being written for babies. Low-brow rubbish. That's not the way to become an adult.

Sophie Divry

#10. We are generally punished by where we have sinned.

Elisabeth Charlotte D'Orleans

#11. You are done with whores. The next one I find in your bed, I'll hang." - Tywin Lannister

George R R Martin

#12. I work from the body - I try to develop a language of the body. I've invented a term I call "corporeal writing" around that idea. I love teaching and collaborating around this idea, because no new breakthrough in literature ever happened because everyone was doing what was already there.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#13. Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

Michel De Montaigne