#fine

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help. ↗

— L. M. Montgomery

#fine #help #nothing #proverbs #real

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished. ↗

— Andrew Morton

#move #private #public #whenever #wished

We developed already, before the first servicing mission, this has been further developed on the second servicing mission and we refined it this time, all the terminology. ↗

— Claude Nicollier

#been #before #developed #first #further

Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#demand #fines #imprisonment #justice #personal

I liked Nixon fine, but Nixon was not a partier. ↗

— George Smathers

#i #liked #nixon

I'm a Black Sheep hopelessly lost in a field of delicious Blue Grass. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#life

LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE UNHAPPY...SO LAUGH INSANELY, KISS SOFTLY, AND MAKE LOVE PASSIONATELY..... ↗

— Muffin

#best-seller #fire #muffin #north #north-philly-s-finest

Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God is of a different nature altogether. It does not hate tragedy. It never denies reality. It stands in the very teeth of suffering. The love of God did not protect His own Son. The cross was the proof of His love – that He gave that Son, that He let Him go to Calvary’s cross, though “legions of angels” might have rescued Him. He will not necessarily protect us - not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#purify #refiner #suffering #vision #imagination

This too shall pass. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#life #quotes-to-define-my-life #inspirational

I told Ersken, "Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall off on" Ersken clapped me on the shoulder as we stepped into the street. "Cheer up, Beka. Maybe you were going to fall off that razor's edge before, but not today," he said, as good humored as always. "Today we're doing to jump. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#humor #joke #uncertainty #walking-the-line #humor