Boothby Graffoe Quotes & Sayings

I'm one of the first invention capitalists. — Nathan Myhrvold

I like to chant a couple of lines of poetry into the ozone layer every day or so, another caller says. — Carol Shields

Yes, sir, thank you, sir, and I wouldn't trust me one little inch, sir. I knows a bad one when I sees them. I have a mirror. — Terry Pratchett

Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine. — Henry Ward Beecher

A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures — Carl Braaten

As the Italian proverb says, 'Translators are traitors.' At some level we all are traitors to the text, saying a little less than the Greek says (thus leaving some meaning behind) or a little more (when trying to clarify). Under- and over-translation.

A good reason to learn Greek and Hebrew, and an even better reason to read more than one translation. — William D. Mounce

Any man who lives by his beliefs is to be admired, not mocked. — Julie Garwood

Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook, something to clutch on to in the world. Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for re-creating the past, for dealing with the future. — Charles Yu

Just because you painted a house didn't mean the furniture inside was any different. It had to be the same with people. — Jennifer E. Smith

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. — Danny Thomas