Sprat Quotes

#1. We are as tired of each other's company as we are of the cold monotony of the black night and of the unpalatable sameness of our food. Physically, mentally, and perhaps morally, then, we are depressed, and from my past experience... I know that this depression will increase.

Jenny Offill

#2. A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

Thomas Sprat

#3. Jack Sprat could eat no fat,His wife could eat no lean. A real sweet pair of neurotics.

Jack Sharkey

#4. If you don't clarify your goal, you'll never identify the best approach.

Andy Stanley

#5. Medications are palliatives. They are not designed to cure the degenerative diseases of the body.

Fereydoon Batmanghelidj

#6. Do not too many believe no zeal to be spiritual but what is censorious or vindictive? Whereas no zeal is spiritual that is not also charitable.

Thomas Sprat

#7. A positive attitude turns "I can't & I won't," into "I have & I WILL!

Mandy Hale

#8. Greediness of getting more deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.

Thomas Sprat

#9. I'm looking for a God that isn't designed by human hands because He's infinitely out of arm's reach.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

Thomas Sprat

#11. By electing a covenant people, God demonstrated to humankind that striving for him is not a vain thing. He rewards those individuals who seek him according to his divine attributes, the highest wisdom, and the ultimate standard of fairness.

James Mikolajczyk

#12. We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

Stephen King

#13. In all works of liberality something more is to be considered besides the occasion of the givers; and that is the occasion of the receivers.

Thomas Sprat

#14. Purpose gives rise to discipline, restraint, and self-control, which are crucial, fundamental tools for success in the journey of life.

Pedro Okoro

#15. Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.

Bobby Darin

#16. Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious.

Thomas Sprat

#17. Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren.

Thomas Sprat

#18. My thoughts are rancorous, ruinous. They throng through me like a shoal of sharp, silver sprat whenever the outer noises aren't loud or plenty enough to keep them at bay, to keep them out of the bay, the bay of my brain.

Sara Baume

#19. Daydreaming is the purest form of being. Take that away and One suffers.

Solange Nicole

#20. He mentioned that he didn't like Jack Kerouac either, but this wasn't quite true. "I don't like people who like Jack Kerouac," he clarified.

Michael Finkel

#21. Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men's passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also apt to fall into the greatest miscarriages.

Thomas Sprat

#22. Everybody knows that L.A. is known for its addiction to the single-passenger automobile, the gridlock, the congestion on the freeways.

Antonio Villaraigosa

#23. All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.

Thomas Sprat

#24. It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations.

Thomas Sprat

#25. Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you ...

Mary Stewart