Schmittys Oar Quotes

#1. I threw in the obligatory "if it be Your will" at the end. That tagline may sound spiritual, but it was less a submission to God's will and more a profession of doubt. If you aren't careful, the will of God can become a cop-out if things don't turn out the way you want.

Mark Batterson

#2. Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

Mark Twain

#3. The club of Marlott alone lived to uphold the local Cerealia. It had walked for hundreds of years, if not as benefit-club, as votive sisterhood of some sort; and it walked still.

Thomas Hardy

#4. You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes.

Anton Chekhov

#5. ...one half leaning in, one half pulling away.

Jodi Picoult

#6. A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

Confucius

#7. Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency

P.S. Martinez

#8. Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

Seneca The Younger

#9. I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.

Jackie DeShannon

#10. Comedy is not something that had necessarily jumped out as something I'd immediately go for.

Ed Speleers

#11. I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy.

Ridley Scott

#12. So sadness is a place?
Sometimes people live there for years

Elizabeth Gilbert

#13. I like Plutarch because I've read him forever, and I know that he's incredibly funky, even though his mainstream image is as Mr. Unfunky.

John D'Agata

#14. Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!

William Blake

#15. Health is the obstacle, which ... must stand in the way of a girl's acquiring the intellectual strength, which ... is so invaluable to a boy.

Elizabeth Missing Sewell