Barckley Card Quotes & Sayings

On short stories:
something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing. — V.S. Pritchett

So, what's the story?"
"No story. Just a nightmare."
"Meaning?"
"Meaning, heavy compression lines in his cartilage, severe bruising on his kidneys, liver and lower intestines. Fracture marks on his collar bone, tibia, radius, humerus, scapular, femur and every single one of his ribs have been broken. Don't even get me started on the concussive damage to his skull and brain tissue. Twenty-three percent of this boys body is scared for life. And yet, every organ is functioning normally and his neurological activity is above average. He's eighteen years old and he weights about two bills but remove the scar tissue and he'd weigh about a buck-ten. All in all, I say he lived inside a hydraulic car press, went through the Napoleonic wars and was on board the Hindenburg when it went down in flame and yet he's okay ... this boy just refuses to die. — S.L.J. Shortt

After a person learns from God's books how to recognize the acceptable time, he becomes a strategist of his own life and a strategic person in human history. — Sunday Adelaja

The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell. For Christians, this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven. — Randy Alcorn

Washington honors the Platinum Rule above all: 'Do it unto others before they do it unto you'. — Wesley Pruden

We are born with hope. We grow up with hope. We live with hope. We love with hope. We vanish from this world with eternal hope. — Debasish Mridha

Do I have to take a memo for misogynist alert?"
"God, no. I'm not that traditional. Sexism is too 2015."
"Don't bother to explain, I'm not one of those strong-willed, self-declared feminists. — Rea Lidde

It's not like they can take anything from me,' he says later, back with his homeboys in Juvenile Hall. 'Ain't got nothing to give. Nothin' but time, that is. And I been doin' time my whole life, one way or the other. — Edward Humes

Most important thing in life is to love, love everything, love everybody, and become beloved. — Debasish Mridha

Any victory would be dear at such a price. — Robert E.Lee

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is generally admitted that Dhyana Buddhism, which was born in India and, after undergoing profound changes, reached full development in China, to be finally adopted by Japan, where it is cultivated as a living tradition to this day, has disclosed unsuspected ways of existence which it is of the utmost importance for us to understand. — Eugen Herrigel