Shelene Bryan Quotes

#1. You are hoping to master the experience. The pain is what we know. It's our barometer of reality. We never trust pleasure.

Stephanie Danler

#2. Did you ever hear of the turd theory?" she asked. He shook his head.
"It goes like this. You think if a certain obnoxious person wasn't in your life, then everything would be just peachy. Then that person is miraculously out of your life, and behold, another turd floats to the top," Jill said.

Carolyn Brown

#3. Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

Kahlil Gibran

#4. I wouldn't call it tamed, laddy-me-love. The lady of Pirate's Swoop shouldn't be tame.

Tamora Pierce

#5. The film 'The Cove' made people aware of the Japanese slaughter of whales.

Paul Watson

#6. I have since come to understand the reality that sometimes God wants us to go through a process without ever achieving what we thought was the goal. God cares about the journey more than the end result.

Shelene Bryan

#7. Truly blessed are those who have their own solitary time and space. They are not easily shaken by the praise or criticism of the world. When they are weakened and worn down by things that are not true, they can always regain strength by entering that time and space of solitude.

Ilchi Lee

#8. Certain gorillas are more evolved than certain human beings I know.

Andy Serkis

#9. And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

Agatha Christie

#10. You're so arrogant, you're almost macho.

Peggy Webb

#11. We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds.

Moshe Dayan

#12. Often we cannot hear God's gentle whisper because we allow the noise of our surroundings to choke out any possibility of recognizing His voice.

Shelene Bryan

#13. He opened the first letter, No "Dear Mr. Woods." It was a page full of profanities. There was something oddly refreshing about honest, to-the-point hate mail. No hypocrisy and forced politeness. Too many letters ripped you to shreds, then closed off 'Sincerely yours.

Randy Alcorn

#14. I like routine. It enables me to improvise.

James Nares