7inson Quotes & Sayings

I've never subscribed to the notion that poverty is quaint or that isolation is somehow ennobling. And anyway, this is Rwanda. There is very little innocence left to lose. — Will Ferguson

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure I've done them - to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring, yearning to join Him in that activity. God is passionate about hallowing the name of God. — John Piper

Wait! I'm the one who's supposed to chase! — Anne Bishop

You matter, Mama repeated. Not because of whose son you are. Because of who you are. You're as important as every other human being that ever was or ever will be. Everyone matters. — Kimberley Brubaker Bradley

The least stupid question a man asks in his lifetime is not: Is there a God and is He a god or a devil? But: Brother, why are you killing me? — Storm Jameson

The train swung around the curve, the engine puffing with short, heavy blasts, and they passed smoothly from sight that way, with that quality about them of shabby and timeless patience, of static serenity: that blending of childlike and ready incompetence and paradoxical reliability that tends and protects them it loves out of all reason and robs them steadily and evades responsibility and obligations by means too barefaced to be called subterfuge even and is taken in theft or evasion with only that frank and spontaneous admiration for the victor which a gentleman feels for anyone who beats him in a fair contest, and withal a fond and unflagging tolerance for whitefolk's vagaries like that of a grandparent for unpredictable and troublesome children, which I had forgotten. — William Faulkner

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw. — Jonathan Swift

It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring. — Robert Green Ingersoll

And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own. — Little Richard

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies. — William Howard Taft