Cojo Of Flatbush Quotes & Sayings

The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however ancient, to fresh biblical scrutiny and, if necessary, reform. — John Stott

If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities. — Patti Smith

Constant criticism can wear one down and weaken knees. — Marvin J. Ashton

Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the Media Lab at MIT, told me that during a meeting with some of the Internet pioneers in 1993 he asked how many computers they believed there would be in the year 2000. The highest number he was given was 30 million. In reality there were going to be 500 million. — Maria Teresa Cometto

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young. — Hugh Laurie

Our bodies are garbage heaps: we collect experience, and from the decomposition of the thrown-out eggshells, spinach leaves, coffee grinds, and old steak bones out of our minds, come nitrogen, heat, and very fertile soil. Out of this fertile soil bloom our poems and stories. But this does not come all at once. It takes time. Continue to turn over and over the organic details of your life until some of them fall through the garbage of discursive thoughts to the solid ground of black soil. — Natalie Goldberg

Let your thoughts be positive for they will become your words.
Let your words be positive for they will become your actions.
Let your actions be positive for they will become your values.
Let your values be positive for they will become your destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi

The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of. — Edward De Bono

Happy is the soul that knows how to find Jesus in the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in all things! — Peter Julian Eymard

Restraint is totally the wrong way to go when the man of your dreams is licking your pussy like it's made of spun sugar. — Ainsley Booth

Do your part before you die a horrible, screaming death, should be the official slogan of the apocalypse. There could be t-shirts and shit. — Jake Bible

I couldn't go on living like this. I had to become successful. "I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterward." And at this juncture I was finally willing to do whatever it was going to take to bring that about - up to and including giving up drugs. From that moment on, I really did take things, in the textbook rehab fashion, one day at a time. An — Russell Brand

Dierdre the counselor must not have had much of a life, because she scheduled our next appointment on a Sunday. I wasn't so thrilled about it, seeing as it wasn't just my day off-it was also the day my friends had off. Orders were orders, however, so I grudgingly showed up. — Richelle Mead