Torday And Minding Quotes

#1. In war, God is always on your side, no matter which side you're on. God is invincible, but one side always loses. Nobody seems to see the fallacy in this.

Elliot MacDonald

#2. Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

Vladimir Putin

#3. Young people feel things so deeply, don't they?' she said quietly, almost to herself. 'Everything's happening for the first time.

Tommy Wallach

#4. What appear to be dangerous and even bad periods in some lives can actually bring them closer to the Lord, because these individuals honestly wrestle with God, as did Jacob at Jabbok, rather than fearfully comply.

Henry Cloud

#5. I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

Thucydides

#6. With silence comes mindfulness, and thus we become better at choosing our words with kind intent before we express them.

Alaric Hutchinson

#7. Who else but utopians could make utopia?

Dave Eggers

#8. It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by every branch and lake and river there grew magnolias. Dogs were the same everywhere, and oxen and mules and horses. But trees were different in different places.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#9. I get very excited when I go to a show - there are all these people who don't know each another who've come together to celebrate this amazing ritual. The making of community that theater provides is quite profound.

Hugh Hardy

#10. I started out fighting before I was acting, actually, then got hurt and got into the acting.

Mickey Rourke

#11. When I'm by myself, magic is something personal. My burden, my secret.
But at Watford, magic is just the air that we breathe. It's what makes me part of something bigger, not the thing that sets me apart.

Rainbow Rowell

#12. Never underestimate a clown with a book.

Rawi Hage