"I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough"

--

Source : Jan Karon (2014). “Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good: The New Mitford Novel”, p.319, Penguin

Jan Karon

#Tough Quotes #Have Confidence Quotes

“If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III,”

Source : "MSNBC's Martin Bashir Outrageously Compares Rick Santorum to Mass Murderer Joseph Stalin" by Scott Whitlock, www.newsbusters.org. February 14, 2012.
“The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them.”

Source : Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult
“The horrors of Vivisection have supplanted the solemnity, the thrilling fascination, of the old unetherized operation upon the human sufferer. Their recorded phenomena, stored away by the physiological inquisitor on dusty shelves, are mostly of as little present use to man as the knowledge of a new comet or of a tungstate of zirconium ... -contemptibly small compared with the price paid for it in agony and torture.”

Source : "Surgical Anaesthesia: Addresses and Other Papers". P. 309. Book by Henry Jacob Bigelow, 1894.
“We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage.”
“The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.”
“The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesnâ€™t teach us anything.”
“I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.”
“Iâ€™m sorry that people are so jealous of me, but I canâ€™t help it that Iâ€™m popular.”

You may also like:

Alexander McCall Smith
Writer
Ann B. Ross
Novelist
Beverly Lewis
Novelist
Debbie Macomber
Author
Francine Rivers
Author
Janet Evanovich
Writer
Janette Oke
Author
Karen Kingsbury
Novelist
Miss Read
Novelist