Compentent Quotes & Sayings

Success - is not about defeating others; but about defeating oneself — Ashok Kallarakkal

6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us l kneel before the LORD, our m Maker! 7. For he is our n God, and we are the people of his o pasture, and the sheep of his hand. — Anonymous

In one terrible instant, that terrible thing happened, the single most tragic experience of my, and just about any, childhood: boredom. — Harrison Scott Key

The chain of marriage is so heavy that it takes two to bear it; sometimes three. — Alexandre Dumas

It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table. — A. Bartlett Giamatti

There are dark forces in the world that would have you believe that you can't succeed and that you're a failure and that you're evil and all this nonsense. — Frederick Lenz

Every girl deserves an Augustus Waters. — Allia Loops

That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a compentent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. — Isaac Newton

Our civilization rests on a faulty premise, that the world is physical and mechanical, energy and matter only. We do not pay for it in our bridges, we pay for it in the quality of our lives. "
— Richard Grossinger

Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time. — Edward Felten

I was standing on the deck looking down at a gang of stevedores working on the dock thirty feet below. One of them recognized me, nudged his neighbor, and pointed. All at once the whole gang stopped working to yell, 'Booster! Booster Keaton!' They waved in wild excitement, and I waved back, marveling, because it was fifteen years of more since they could have seen my last M-G-M picture.
And if there is sweeter music this side of heaven I haven't heard it. Dr. Avedon said I could live to be a hundred years old. I intend to do it. For who would not wish to live a hundred years in a world where there are so many people who remember with gratitude and affection a little man with a frozen face who made them laugh a bit long years ago when they and I were both young? — Buster Keaton

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. — Michael Ende

Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed — Douglas MacArthur

Seeing ourselves through the eyes of grace frees us to be for others all we need to be. — Michael Card