Chang Chao Quotes & Sayings

The internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996. — Robert Metcalfe

the trees were putting on their September garments, brown and red and yellow, — Jeff VanderMeer

It seemed now as if, touched by human penitence and all its toil, divine goodness had parted the curtain and displayed behind it, single, distinct, the hare erect; the wave falling; the boat rocking, which did we deserve them, should be ours always. But alas, divine goodness, twitching the cord, draws the curtain; it does not please him; he covers his treasures in a drench of hail, and so breaks them, so confuses them that it seems impossible that their calm should ever return or that we should ever compose from their fragments a perfect whole or read in the littered pieces the clear words of truth. For our penitence deserves a glimpse only; our toil respite only. — Virginia Woolf

Walking a trail frees my mind to wander.... — Debra Lauman

In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network. — Gail Sheehy

I don't want to be some skinny mini with my tits out. I really don't want to do it and I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. — Adele

If your goal is transformation, then it's more important to teach them how to think than what to think. — Ken Hensley

The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing. — Bertolt Brecht

They who know the agonies of an ambitious, indolent, doubting, self-accusing man, - of a man who has a skeleton in his cupboard as to which he can ask for sympathy from no one, - will understand what feelings were at work within the bosom of Sir Thomas when his Percycross friends left him alone in his chamber. — Anthony Trollope

As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life. — Richard J. Foster

Our level of love or our level of fear determines the state of our reality. — Stephen Richards

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone. — Bill Gates

Humans are storytellers. It is our nature to make up stories, to interpret everything we perceive. Without awareness, we give our personal power to the story and the story writes itself. With awareness, we recover the control of our story. We see we are the authors and if we don't like our story, we change it. — Miguel Ruiz