Afghanistsn Quotes & Sayings

scripture is the voice of God speaking to us in our own human language. The Bible is an ocean in which we can immerse ourselves and never fully discover its riches. God's very life flows through it. As a nurse pricks a vein to draw blood, we can tap into this power for ourselves by faithfully praying with the scriptures each day. — Leo Zanchettin

I'm the first player in history that doesn't want to play defense and still gets in foul trouble. — Shaquille O'Neal

Nothing out there tells us how we must live: we and we alone can now with confidence knowingly trust our own hearts, and admit that we do and must invent our own ethics. — Don Cupitt

To have a great dream is a choice. To make it a reality depends on great habits. — Debasish Mridha

Plant the trees just for beauty,
If flowers bloom or fruits ripen,
Enjoy it as a gift and appreciate nature as a universal giver. — Debasish Mridha

When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the ... for the task you're trying to solve. — Bill Gates

Are you sure I can't catch it? (Nick)
I'm positive. Believe me, I know my zombies. (Bubba)
(Nick scoffed.) 'Is it just me or is that like saying I know my elves and fairies?' (Nick) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Vision is easy. It's so easy to just point to the bleachers and say I'm going to hit one over there. What's hard is saying, OK, how do I do that? What are the specific programs, what are the commitments, what are the resources, what are the processes we need in play to go implement the vision, turn it into a working model that people follow every day in the enterprise. That's hard work. — Lou Gerstner

By not burning their poppy fields to the ground but instead maintaining a security umbrella that international development agencies could safely work under as they improved these ordinary people's lives, we would win their 'hearts and minds' in the classic manifestation of a successful counter-insutgency operation.
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Maybe our Western values world somebe instilled in these people. But in country where the average life expectancy was 42 and with the price of that life coming in contrasting cheap at $10 plus the bonus of martyrdom, or alien values might just as equally not be snapped up. — Jake Wood

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal. — David Geffen