Shurett Quotes

#1. [Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.

Bill Bryson

#2. Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive.

Max Anders

#3. Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people.

John Calvin

#4. He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.

Elie Wiesel

#5. I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become ... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.

May Sarton

#6. Why couldn't love be rational like everything else? What right did it have to bulldoze through your reasoning and leave you spinning?

Victoria Connelly

#7. It was my temper to avoid a crowd, and to attach myself fervently to a few.

Mary Shelley

#8. We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves.

Katherine Boo

#9. I refuse to be linguistically constrained by dictionary writers.

Amy E. Reichert

#10. I hear they're all infected with chlamydia, which just goes to show that you really can't tell who's got the clam. I mean, look at a picture of a koala ... tell me you're not shocked.

Elle Lothlorien

#11. In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls.

James Surowiecki

#12. You know what love is?
It is all kindness, generosity.

Rumi

#13. It seems to me that I despised you. My joy at finding you again was not genuine.

C. G. Jung