Blacktopping Contractors Quotes & Sayings

Faith is not to blindly believe, son. Faith is action. It's doing something. It's creating what we need and believing that God will be merciful enough to grant it in his time. — Orson Scott Card

The short answer to our question is that we are not entering a post-American world. It is not possible for this (or any) book to see "the future," because there are so many possible futures dependent on unpredictable events and they play a larger role the further out one tries to look. Thus it is important to specify a time horizon. For example, if the "American century" began in 1941, will the United States still have primacy in power resources and play the central role in the global balance of power among states in 2041? My guess is "yes." In that sense, the American century is not over, but because of transnational and non-state forces, it is definitely changing in important ways that are described below. But first, we must look at the charge that the United States is in decline. — Joseph S. Nye Jr.

If a candidate for office starts talking about thinning the deer population or investing in barriers to reduce the number of deer on the highways, the other side will probably just ignore him, because they're not going to know what to say about it. But there is a chance that the issue will resonate with voters in an unexpected way. — Bill James

One clear-cut result is worth a dozen wise precautions. — Winston S. Churchill

Anything else has no relevance. I can't be what you need me to be. So you'll have to accept this version or waste your time questioning something that has no answer. I know acceptance isn't easy when you're unsure of what you're accepting, but all I can say is that you're accepting me as me. — Krista Ritchie

I imagine that being wanted is the greatest feeling. A feeling that solidifies your stay in this life, justifies it. — Tarryn Fisher

Our ministries exist not simply for the purpose of helping people live well now; our ministries, like our whole lives, must aim for the end, when we'll see Jesus face-to-face. The — Gloria Furman

Enlightened despotism: the only regime that can attract a disabused mind, one incapable of being the accomplice of revolutions since it is not even the accomplice of history. — Emil M. Cioran

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that's what I've had to make the best of. — Samuel Beckett

We fall. We get back up. We kick. We push. Again and again. Because the joy of success is greater than the depression of failure. — Jay McLean

The only magic cure is to endure. — Marty Rubin

When you strive for perfection, you compare different versions of what could be instead of being present with what is. Perfectionism is an attempt to inhabit an imaginary world in order to avoid experiencing the world in which you live. — Gary Zukav

If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this. — Abraham Lincoln

I'm clever, I know it, and why shouldn't I acknowledge it?' While — W. Somerset Maugham