Christian Birthday Friendship Quotes & Sayings

To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys. — Vanessa Mae

We have no information, not even a tradition, concerning the first migration of the human race into Italy. It was the universal belief of antiquity that in Italy, as well as elsewhere, the first population had sprung from the soil. — Theodor Mommsen

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood. — Elbert Hubbard

People loved their dogs. They were their children, their companions, sometimes even their soul mates. Some people swore that their dog had an almost psychic connection with them, sensing when they were sad and bringing them comfort. — Karen McQuestion

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. — Arnold Palmer

Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt? — Charles Mingus

Thereby men do not flee from being deceived as much as from being damaged by deception: what they hate at this stage is basically not the deception but the bad, hostile consequences of certain kinds of deceptions. In a similarly limited way man wants the truth: he desires the agreeable life-preserving consequences of truth, but he is indifferent to pure knowledge, which has no consequences; he is even hostile to possibly damaging and destructive truths. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It was only then that I realized the distance between uncle and nephew wasn't nearly as great as I'd assumed. — Geraldine Brooks

When thou feelest thyself most indisposed to prayer yield not to it, but strive and endeavor to pray even when thou thinkest thou canst not pray. - Hildersam — E. M. Bounds

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Never close the doors of opportunity to climb through the windows of peril. — Dennis Adonis