Stan Efferding Quotes

#1. If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am:
I'm a genuine philanthropist
all other kinds are sham.
Each little fault of temper and each social defect
In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.

W.S. Gilbert

#2. On occasions of this sort it was, I must admit, very pleasurable to be a monarch: to be able to get important things done by smothering stupid opposition with a single authoritative word.

Robert Graves

#3. I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

Wole Soyinka

#4. In 'Straight Talking,' I had bared my soul, and the press attention had been overwhelming. There were times when I felt scared and vulnerable, regretting the articles I had written to publicize the book, regretting I had opened my life up for all to see.

Jane Green

#5. He closed the laptop. A sure sign I was about to receive his full attention.

Ransom Riggs

#6. When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music.

Ellen G. White

#7. Knowledge humanely applied makes human progress possible.

Frank H. T. Rhodes

#8. A girl should NEVER attend a party with hairy knees.

Kimberly J. Dalferes

#9. Take my friends and my home - as an outcast I'll roam: Take the money I have in the bank: It is just what I wish, but deprive me of fish, And my life would indeed be blank.

Lewis Carroll

#10. I write short stories. I write every day.

Isaiah Mustafa

#11. When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

Calvin Coolidge

#12. But you like it, don't you? You like me like this. You want me to take what I need. You want to be free with me, don't you? - Nash

M. Leighton

#13. The man under the hedge, sir. He is a magician. Did you never hear that if you wake a magician before his time, you risk bringing his dreams out of his head into the world?

Susanna Clarke