Sprat Quotes

#1. 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

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

Jack Sharkey

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Antonio Villaraigosa

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Solange Nicole

#10. 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

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

Thomas Sprat

#12. 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

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

Pedro Okoro

#14. 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

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

Stephen King

#16. 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

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

Thomas Sprat

#18. 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

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

Thomas Sprat

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

Mandy Hale

#21. 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

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

Fereydoon Batmanghelidj

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

Andy Stanley

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

Thomas Sprat

#25. 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