D. J. Taylor Quotes

God's work is not man working for God; it is God's own work, though often wrought through man's hands.

I often think that God must have been looking for someone small enough and weak enough for Him to use, and that He found me.

Satan may build a hedge about us and fence us in and hinder our movements, but he cannot roof us in and prevent our looking up.

Carlos Tevez's English should be better than what it is

When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.

You have to get to the next level, or you're gonna get stuck where you are for the rest of your life.

I'm a really big homebody. If I had my way, a typical Saturday night would be staying home, ordering in, watching a movie or catching up on some shows.

The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.

We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.

I'm 5'11, so when I wear heels, it's definitely a really good view that I have. I'm, like, 6'2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

To truly love is to have the courage to walk away and let the other person who wishes to be free go no matter how much it hurts.

I'm a promoter of masturbation. Don't sleep around...learn yourself first! Guys do it, but girls don't. They should.

I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'

Oh, it's soo hard being famous! I can't date anybody because everybody just wants my hot body and my Twilight millions!

There are four directions: North, South, East, and West. We are going in the fifth direction, which is the direction of stories.

The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.

I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life I'd be Loretta Lynn.

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. ...both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.

I love Central Park. I spend a lot of time in there. I try and get in there whenever I can.

You can make your own son or daughter one of a kind if you have the time and will to do so; school can only make them part of a hive, herd or anthill.

My left brain is doing the best job it can with the information it has to work with. I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know.

When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.

The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.

Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there.

But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.

The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.

I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it's forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can't ride.

It's food too fine for angels, yet come, take and eat thy fill!

Everyone has secrets and everyone tells lies.

When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.

I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.

So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]

If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

Music is like a huge release of tension.

I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.

Give. Remember always to give. That is the one thing that will make you grow.

If you have something about yourself that's different, you're lucky. It's not a curse.

When bands are on stage and they ask the crowd, "Are you having a good time?" what they're really saying is, "I just want a bit of reassurance - is everything all right?"