Arabic Parable Quotes & Sayings

Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. — C.S. Lewis

The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see a film and not know anything about it. Sometimes I feel like we know too much about films. — Karen Allen

So listen, man, "weird" is my middle name. I'm ready for anything. The weirder, the better. — Joe Manganiello

The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies. — Benjamin Graham

God wants his power in every person's life. He loves taking ordinary people and using them to do extraordinary things. It didn't take long, however, for Christians to make ministry a profession and hire a few folks to lead their churches. They called these people clergy and soon the rest of the body of Christ sat passively on the sidelines and watched. They could be part of a "church" without any real sacrifice or personal commitment to the well-being of the community. — Chris Hodges

Everyone dreamed, only some forgot. — Maggie Stiefvater

Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery. — Gerald May

Eating, too, has been turned away from its true nature: want on the one hand and superfluity on the other have troubled the clarity of this need, and all the profound, simple necessities in which life renews itself have similarly been obscured. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Humility is not a one time lesson that comes when you have lost everything. It is a daily reminder of how far we have come, yet still short of who we can be through HIS guidance. Blessed is the soul that can recognize that he isn't moving mountains, but God is for him. — Shannon L. Alder

Nothing but the heart can change the heart. — Carroll O'Connor

Laurence the last time I saw something like you I flushed it away. — Mark A. Cooper

It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.65 — Karen Swallow Prior

As humans we have two great spiritual needs. The first is forgiveness, which God has made possible by sending His Son into the world to die for our sins. Our second need, however, is for goodness, which God also made possible by sending the Holy Spirit to dwell within us. — Billy Graham