Snags Australian Quotes

#1. Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper understanding, they would recognize that prayer is but man uttering to God what is God's will.

Watchman Nee

#2. Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]

George Herbert

#3. What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words, music can express.
Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations indeed knows all things.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#4. The responsibility of building leadership in the Church belongs to the father and the mother ... As youth grow and mature through their teenage years and move toward adulthood, the Church picks up an important role in this process of giving youth an opportunity to lead, but it begins in the home.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#5. I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own.

Cat Power

#6. But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

Andre Gide

#7. Goes to war, still encourages the production of unwanted C3 children by exhausted mothers, and still compels married partners who hate one another to live together in the name of morality.

Vera Brittain

#8. Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.

Greil Marcus

#9. Better y'not vex y'self on what aint y'vexes. - Malstrom pg 269

Doug Dorst

#10. As universities have turned into businesses, so students have turned into consumers.

Kenan Malik

#11. The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.

Robert D. Kaplan

#12. Castes never meant that much to me.

Kiera Cass