"Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers knowing the depth of the water. Each stroke helps them onward to a definite objective."

-- Margaret Sanger

#Knowing Quotes #Water Quotes #Depth Quotes

“One cannot apologize for one's nature.”

Source : Matthew J. Kirby (2011). “Icefall”, p.113, Scholastic Inc.
“As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.”
“Give God the margin of eternity to justify Himself in, and the more we live and know of our own souls and of spiritual experience generally, the more we shall be convinced that we have to do with one who is good and just.”

Source : Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.354
“When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.”
“You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.”

Source : Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL
“Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.”

Source : "Lizz Winstead, Freely Speaking". Interview with Lianne Stokes, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.
“A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.”

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