Boeheim Syracuse Quotes & Sayings

There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny. — Ravi Zacharias

Just then, in that instant, I saw His eyes. I recognised them. They were the eyes of that trembling father in a smoke-filled room on the ninety-third floor of Tower One, dialing his little girls for the last time. Those were the eyes behind that calming voice singing 'Amazing Grace' in a crowded and slippery stairwell, trapped outside a roof door when the ceilings began to cave. The eyes of the people who stayed behind with the handicapped victims waiting for police officers who never made it up the stairs. Those were the eyes of firemen who pushed me to safety, the doctor who cared for me for more than a year free of charge, the therapist who visited my home regularly so that I could sleep a little, the children who loved me, the brother who prayed nonstop, and the pastor who became my friend. Those were the eyes of God. — Leslie Haskin

My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill. — Rudolph A. Marcus

And I learned that are troubles
Of more than one kind
Some come from ahead
And some come from behind. — Dr. Seuss

There is no worse feeling than being unable to assuage the suffering of the innocent. — Adriana Trigiani

Better be alone than in bad company. — Thomas Fuller

Well, it's a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. — F Scott Fitzgerald

That is what we do each time we see someone who falls in love with evil strategies, until we hurl him into misery, so he may learn to fear the Gods. — Aristophanes

In his book Stand Ye In Holy Places, President Harold B. Lee wrote that one is converted when his eyes see what he ought to see, his ears hear what he ought to hear and his heart understands what he ought to understand. "And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion," he wrote. — Harold B. Lee

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. — Erica Jong

All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being. As long as I am my mind, I am those cravings, those needs, wants, attachments, and aversions, and apart from them there is no "I" except as a mere possibility, an unfulfilled potential, a seed that has not yet sprouted. — Eckhart Tolle

When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me. — Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones. — Gabirol

If you know how to make software, then you can create big things. — Xavier Niel

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. — Ralph W. Gerard