Howard was almost as fond of this hall as he was of his own shop. The Brownies used it on Tuesdays, and the Women's Institute on Wednesdays. It had hosted jumble sales and Jubilee celebrations, wedding receptions and wakes, and it smelled of all of these things: of stale clothes and coffee urns, and the ghosts of home-baked cakes and meat salads; of dust and human bodies; but primarily of aged wood and stone.

I don't care what the religion is called as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.

Charley Pride

Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.

Steve Maraboli

It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha

Galileo Galilei

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

Thornton Wilder

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Will Rogers

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

Julia Stiles

[...] this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.

Charles Dickens

I can, therefore I am.

Simone Weil

It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.

Mark Twain

I need that on stage. I need a burst of life. That's entertainment for me.

Tina Turner

It was then that I realized I wasn't afraid to lose my life; I was afraid to lose the life I could've lived.

Amanda Nuri

The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less defense and the less defense the less the gain.

Sir Thomas Wyatt