942 0616a Quotes & Sayings

I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself. — Ruby Wax

Wondering whether Christianity is real is not the same as wondering whether Christianity is true. If you question the truth of Christianity, you can do something tangible about it. You can read books, take a class, or talk to someone about it. But what can you do when you're already convinced it's true but don't experience it as real? — Gregory A. Boyd

If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years. I still do sometimes. — Mike Nichols

One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill? — Friedrich Nietzsche

THERE ARE THINGS I LOVE ABOUT marriage. I love the familiarity of it," Nedra said. "It's like a tattoo. You wanted it at the time, you have it, it's implanted in your skin, you can't get rid of it. You're hardly even aware of it any more. I suppose I'm very conventional," she decided. — James Salter

It is in the darkest night that the light we are shines brightest — Matthew Woodring Stover

I care deeply about all the fine details," she said, "only actually, I don't. Sum it up. — James S.A. Corey

If you analyze a host of real world outcomes using adoption studies, fraternal v. identical twin studies, twins-raised-apart studies, the history of early childhood intervention research, naturally-occurring experiments, differences between societies, changes over history, and so forth, you tend to come up with nature and nurture as being about equally important: maybe fifty-fifty. The glass is roughly half-full and half-empty. — Steve Sailer

Use design as a framework to bring order out of chaos. — Nita Leland

Or I could see Fish, Just a button up, Like a Mayor, Like a President, Just demands so much from his teammates, Has played with so many great players, But still respects everybody. He's 38 years old, And he has nothing else to prove, And I said, "Fish you wanna come get some shots up with me?" And first thing he says is "Yes." He always wants to learn. Even though he's done so much in this league, Played with so many great players, He always wants to learn, And that motivated me To know that it's never a point Where you can stop getting better. And he's a guy that made me realize that. — Kevin Durant

Health system development is a key to effective detection, response, and control of any outbreak. — Margaret Chan

Charity requires sacrifice, and members of Congress could set a good example of charity by giving up their pay increase. — Tom Coburn

Our names contain our fates; living as we do in a place where names have not acquired the meaninglessness of the West, and are still more than mere sounds, we are also the victims of our titles. — Salman Rushdie

God never breaks a man down with problems except to build him up. — Charlie Jones

Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way. — John Oates