"Nobody starts out a perfect quilter."

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Source : Sandra Dallas (2010). “Prayers for Sale”, p.17, Macmillan

Sandra Dallas

#Perfect Quotes #Quilters Quotes

“I'd never say no to surgery in the future, because I feel like, as I get older, I'm going to face temptation more.”
“There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down”

Source : René Girard, Clifford Geertz, Geoffrey H. Hartman, Stanford University. Committee on Modern Thought and Literature (1973*). “Myth and ritual in Shakespeare: A midsummer night's dream”
“When a lot of athletes get done playing, they end up in some really tough positions. They have a hard time transitioning because their identity is wrapped up in who they are as a player and what they do rather than who they can be in Christ. We desire to help people understand the invitation that God has given each one of us as Christ followers to be a part of this global redemptive story. If you can't give your life to something with meaning and purpose of that magnitude then there's nothing there.”

Source : "Jacksonville Jaguars defensive tackle Aaron Kampman on his faith, his recent trip to El Salvador and the NFL lockout". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.
“Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The only way change will ever happen is if we speak up, and we have to know that it actually has an impact. Because we have a lot more power than we think we do, I think.”

Source : Interview with Eddie Vedder, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.
“Weâ€™ve got to stick together, thatâ€™s all I know. We all drive each other crazy at times, but I donâ€™t want to end up here alone, like the Hermit. Then this really would be Hell. Humans do such terrible things to each other that sometimes my brain tells me they must be evil. But my heart still isnâ€™t convinced. I just hope we can survive.”
“There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.”
“My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends...”

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