QUOTES...

that make me think, or laugh, or nod my head, or that I just like for whatever reason.

Thou wilt make known to me the path of life; in Thy presence is fulness of joy; in Thy right hand there are pleasures forever. Psalm 16:11

Fairy tales don't tell children that dragons exist, children already know that. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed. G. K. Chesterton

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." Cicero

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can"t read them." Mark Twain

Do not be hasty in word or impulsive in thought to bring up a matter in the presence of God. For God is in heaven and you are on the earth; therefore let your words be few. Ecclesiastes 5:2

Sometimes I do get to places just when God"s ready to have somebody click the shutter. Ansel Adams

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How shall we become lovely? By loving Him who is ever lovely. Augustine

Among all the redeemed in glory there is not one who looks back and sees that on earth there was any mistake in the divine conduct towards him. God does all things well. William S. Plumer

It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. Mark Twain

When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. Erasmus

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide. Quintilian

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. Mark Twain

six hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades. (translation: If you can read this bumper sticker, you are very well educated and much too close.) :-)

There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing well done."-- W. E. B. DuBois

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. - Tolstoy

It was clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down. ~ Agatha Christie

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. ~ Albert Einstein

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. ~ G. K. Chesterton

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~ Thomas Edison

"to me, photography is an art of observation. it's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... i've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them." ~ elliott erwitt

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
~Saint Augustine

[There is a] difference between a pretty picture and an important picture. Anna Kuperberg

"Miracles do not cluster. Hold on to the Constitution of the United States of America and the republic for which it stands. —What has happened once in six thousand years may never happen again. Hold on to your Constitution, for if the American Constitution shall fail there will be anarchy throughout the world." ~Daniel Webster

"Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?”
— St. Augustine (354-430)

"I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic, books of all kinds reflecting every transient stage of my parents' interest, books readable and unreadable, books suitable for a child and books most emphatically not. Nothing was forbidden me. In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass." ~ C.S. Lewis

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. ~Dorothy Lange

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain. ~ author unknown

“There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one” – Jill Churchill

"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair." G.K. Chesterton

“Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second.” French Photographer Marc Riboud

"A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people." - Annie Leibovitz

"I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there; in her fertile fields and boundless prairies, and it was not there; in her rich mines and her vast world commerce, and it was not there. Not until I went to the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." ~ Alexis de Tocqueville

‎"Avoid making a commotion, just as you wouldn’t stir up the water before fishing. Don’t use a flash out of respect for the natural lighting, even when there isn’t any. If these rules aren’t followed, the photographer becomes unbearably obtrusive." - Henri Cartier-Bresson

"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." ~Albert Einstein

“This benefit of seeing ... can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully...” ~ Dorothea Lange