Christine 1983 Quotes & Sayings

There is a lot of relief for daters who are serious about wanting to be in a relationship. This comes in the form of what appears to be dramatic changes like speed dating and Internet dating. — April Masini

If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself. — Jacqueline Novogratz

If you are too busy to pray then you are too busy. — W. Sangster

Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive. — Criss Jami

Only the one who does not know what is life may believe that it is beautiful and easy. — Albert Camus

He raised an eyebrow, which instantly made Clary jealous. She'd always wanted to be able to do that. — Cassandra Clare

Some days you go bear hunting and you get eaten. Some days you come home with a nice rug to roll around on, and bear steaks. What they don't tell you as a kid is that sometimes you get the rug and steaks, but you also get some nice scars to go with them. As a child you don't understand that you can win, but that's it's not always worth the price. Once you understand and accept that possibility you become a real grown up, and the world becomes a much more serious place. Not less fun, but once you realize what can go wrong, it's a lot scarier to go hunting "bears". — Laurell K. Hamilton

The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength. — Peter Drucker

Sincerity in personal advertisements is a code word for commitment, used by women to screen out men seeking casual sex without any commitment. — David M. Buss

Lucy in the sky. Without her I am the walrus, likely to lose myself in dark gibberish and fade away." Lance Underphal, Cut-Throat Syndrome. — Michael Allan Scott

I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved. — Vernon Jordan

Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge. — Ramana Maharshi