Carbaugh Hollow Quotes & Sayings

Decisive results come sooner from sudden shocks than from long- drawn pressure. Shocks throw the opponent off his balance. Pressure allows him time to adjust himself to it. That military lesson is closely linked with the general experience of history that human beings have an almost infinite power of accommo-' dation, to degradation of living conditions, so long as the process is gradual. — B.H. Liddell Hart

It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily. — Michael O'Donoghue

We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth. — John Selden

The word of God teaches that Christians suffer in order that they might glorify God in their lives. — Billy Graham

Godspeed, little taters. — Andy Weir

But men are funny about their wars, they act as if they own them, and perhaps they do, for I don't think women ever start them. — Pippa Goldschmidt

We love to quote the saying "Rome was not built in a day" but we fail to remember that Rome was eventually built, and it must have been so magnificent that when people admired it, they were told that it didn't happen in just a day. The question, then, is: if Rome was not built in a day, how was it built? Answer: It was built every day. — Nana Awere Damoah

Rows and rows of books lined the shelves and I let my eyes linger on the sturdy spines, thinking how human books were, so full of ideas and images, worlds imagined, worlds perceived; full of fingerprints and sudden laughter and the sighs of readers, too. It was humbling to consider all these authors, struggling with this word or that phrase, recording their thoughts for people they'd never meet. In that same way, the detritus of the boxes was humbling - receipts, jotted notes, photos with no inscriptions, all of it once held together by the fabric of lives now finished, gone. — Kim Edwards

Knowing that others have gone through similar tragedies may be a help, but it should be remembered that every tragedy is not only commonplace but also unique. — Judith Martin

The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be. — Richard J. Foster

Because he'd learned as a child that the ones in this world who were really strong, they knew how to fear - and how to keep going even when that fear rose like a howling beast inside. — Cynthia Eden

A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure. — John Foxe

If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things. — Idries Shah