Challies Blog Quotes & Sayings

A woman needed half her leg amputated after she slipped and broke the leg as she was cleaning her bath while she was still asleep. Not even the pain of a broken bone woke her and the angle at which she fell cut off circulation to the leg, killing the limb. When she finally awoke, she was close to multi-organ collapse. — Michael McGirr

steamships insult the dignity of distance, — Alexander McCall Smith

Skill reaches the ceiling,
talent reaches the mountaintop,
excellence reaches the sky,
but genius reaches the stars. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Ultimately, every human being must face this question: What do you think of Christ? Whose Son is He? We must answer this question with belief and action. We must not only believe something about Jesus, but we must do something about Him. We must accept Him or reject Him. — Billy Graham

Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes. — William Zinsser

When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf. — Haruki Murakami

But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it? — Elizabeth Bowen

To lead, one must follow. — Laozi

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages. — Annie Lennox

The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times. — Mick Jagger