Brent Seabrook Quotes & Sayings

Alan," I cried, "I can stand no more of this." "Ye'll have to sit it then, Davie, — Robert Louis Stevenson

The tension between religion and science is an old problem. In the fourth century, Christians and scientists were deadlocked over the matter of the earth's shape. Saint Augustine, a wise man who knew the difference between the outer life and the inner life, wrote: 'What concern is it of mine whether heaven is like a sphere and the earth is enclosed by it and suspended in the middle of the universe, or whether heaven like a disk above the earth covers it over on one side? These facts would be of no avail for my salvation.' Augustine attached little importance to science and left it alone. If a reading of the Bible conflicted with a scientific view that was certain truth, he humbly admitted that he had interpreted the Bible erroneously. He could afford to be humble, for in his inmost convictions he looked upon science the way a master looks upon his pet, as a creature with intelligence but lacking in higher understanding, and something irrelevant to the search for meaning in life. — Ronald W. Dworkin

The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility. — Charles Handy

Problems are like Balloons. We let them unnecessarily blow up. — R.v.m.

But if you want to be a good mayor - there seem to be so very few of them - that must be the sort of thing you have to be destined for. And a wish that goes against your destiny ... that's always a bad idea.. Only a fool scoffs at destiny.'
'I think only a fool relies on it,' Julian grumbled. 'How can destiny decide what I'm going to be before I do? — Kate Milford

It's a tricky place, especially the last sector. I wasn't happy in practice. I wasn't happy with the car and I wasn't happy with myself. But I always thought there was more in the car. — Sebastian Vettel

Your power ends where your fear begins. — Barbara Marciniak

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. — Theodore M. Hesburgh

Love is never wasted. It can create an opening where none existed before. — Rick Hocker

Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it. — Cassandra Clare

Why? Why should the bond between a people and their baseball team be so intense? Fenway Park is a part of it, offering a physical continuum to the bond, not only because Papi can stand in the same batter's box as Teddy Ballgame, but also because a son might sit in the same wooden-slat seat as his father. — Tom Verducci

Is this my replacement?" What? "I didn't replace you!" "Of course not. I'm irreplaceable. — Ilona Andrews

We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it. — Donna Brazile