Thomas Lye Quotes

#1. As prayer without faith is but a beating of the air, so trust without prayer [is] but a presumptuous bravado. He that promises to give, and bids us trust His promises, commands us to pray, and expects obedience to his commands. He will give, but not without our asking.

Thomas Lye

#2. As sunlight is for flowers, and sustenance for the mortal shell, music is for the human soul.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#3. If we don't uphold our Constitution and our values, that over time that will make us less safe. And that will be a recruitment tool for organizations like al-Qaida. That's what I've gotta keep my eye on.

Barack Obama

#4. Rather awkwardly shy and therefore at times defensive and rather too assertive

John Edward Williams

#5. In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

A.J. Muste

#6. It is only when we possess ourselves that we can give ourselves to others. If what we possess feels wrong, bad, or wicked, then we try not only to hide it from others, but we also try to hide it from ourselves.

Jack Dominian

#7. Chronic stress is linked to some of our most deadly diseases.

John J. Ratey

#8. No one could ever be for me what [he] had been because he had known me when, and that had kept me away from the true reality of my years.

Elizabeth Berg

#9. My mother always seemed to me like a fairy princess: a radiant being possessed of limitless riches and power. She shone for me like the evening star. I loved her dearly.

Winston Churchill

#10. Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.

Madison Smartt Bell

#11. Every mode of violent death available to Renaissance man, including a lye pit, land mines, a trained falcon with envenom'd talons, is employed. It plays, as Metzger remarked later, like a Road Runner cartoon in blank verse

Thomas Pynchon

#12. It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty.

Brandon Sanderson