Alyssa Yoder > Alyssa's Quotes

“They often engage in resolutions concerning the most important matters, induced by these reports and stories alone; of which they must necessarily instantly repent, since they yield to mere unauthorized reports; and since most people give to their questions answers framed agreeably to their wishes.”
― Gaius Iulius Caesar, Julius Caesar: Complete Works

“What is the good of begetting a man until we have settled what is the good of being a man?”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

“When God will not use thee in one kind, yet He will in another. A soul that desires to serve and honour Him shall never want opportunity to do it; nor must thou so limit the Holy One of Israel as to think He hath but one way in which He can glorify Himself by thee.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“The average batterer, Adams told me, “is more likable than his victim, because domestic violence affects victims a lot more than it affects batterers.”
― Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us