Ruyter Poubel Quotes

#1. A little stay on earth will make heaven more heavenly. Nothing makes rest so sweet as toil; nothing renders security so pleasant as exposure to alarms.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#2. I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#3. I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I felt very lonely: my mother thought I was extremely difficult and my grandmother was extremely severe.

Marisa Berenson

#4. Sooner or later they all turn their backs. They all leave. That's gospel. I've been there. I've seen it. They all do.

Colum McCann

#5. As a novelist, I like the contained drama and complexity of the courtroom, though I don't watch those shows on TV. I prefer the hospital shows because I wanted to be a doctor.

Elizabeth Strout

#6. If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. They want liberalization! I'll give them liberalization. I'll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#8. Love is the essence, fragrance, and beauty of life.

Debasish Mridha

#9. You have a fighting spirit. I admire that, or would admire it should you choose to harness it to a worthier cause than that of someone considered a criminal subversive by his own national government.

Philip Roth

#10. Humphrey finds everybody charming I never can get him to abuse Casaubon. He will even speak well of the bishop, though I tell him it is unnatural in a beneficed clergyman; what can one do with a husband who attends so little to the decencies? I hide it as well as I can by abusing everybody myself.

George Eliot

#11. Life is long and there is enough of it for satisfying personal accomplishments if we use our hours well.

Seneca.

#12. A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or Jews, while only 7.5 percent claim no religion.

William Bennett

#13. He was less like a tree of knowledge and more like a bush of opinions." From the book "The Sellout

Paul Beatty