Venardos Quotes

#1. When well executed, description is unobtrusive and lends substance to a novel. It is the body fat of prose: too much is unhealthy, but without any, you no longer have the thing - you have its skeleton.

Howard Mittelmark

#2. If that's the case, I'm happy in my insanity.

Kristen Ashley

#3. The Ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable art known to man.

Napoleon Hill

#4. God's image is more than flesh and bones.

Charles F. Glassman

#5. My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

Russell Banks

#6. The more I pursue God, the more I realize that he is inherently different from us. He does not protect his possessions and hoard his toys. He does not look for
ways to make us jealous of him, though he, the God Most High, is jealous for us.

John D. Richardson

#7. Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God Himself.

R.C. Sproul

#8. There once was a man who was sore
'Cuz his wife wouldn't open the door.
Celibacy
is just not for me
Let me in, you cock-teasing whore.

Jake Wizner

#9. No one knows what is going to happen in the next few minutes, and yet people still go forward, because they have trust, because they have faith.

Paulo Coelho

#10. One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider's whip would make obedient. I depicted this perfect horse throwing his rider at the sight of the whip.

Marquis De Lafayette

#11. If to know is to work, then knowledge is the fruit of our own unaided effort and activity; then knowledge includes nothing which is not due to the effort of man, and there is nothing gratuitous about it, nothing "inspired", nothing "given" about it.

Josef Pieper