Cummins Quick Quotes & Sayings

The church is not to be judged by how useful we are as a "supportive institution" and our clergy as members of a "helping profession". The church has its own reason for being, hid within its own mandate and not found in the world. We are not chartered by the Emperor. — Stanley Hauerwas

To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, 'Don't cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.' — Ajahn Chah

The law of cause and effect: If you do what other successful people do, you will eventually get the results that other successful people get. — Brian Tracy

Imagine there was a table covered with fleas, he explains. The fleas would jump and jump to heights unknown. Then a man came along and upturned a glass jar over the fleas. The fleas jumped and hit the top of the jar and could go no farther. Then the man removed the jar and yet the fleas did not jump higher than they had grown accustomed, because they believed there still be a glass ceiling. — Pierce Brown

The poetics of politics had to be observed. — Tom Clancy

Love begets love. If you show it, you will feel it. If you give it, you will receive it. — Elizabeth Bourgeret

I only use three primaries, so the nice thing is I can't have favorite colors. — Chuck Close

Cut Men's throats with whisperings. — Ben Jonson

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art. — William Osler

To understand how black projects began, and how they continue to function today, one must start with the creation of the atomic bomb. The men who ran the Manhattan Project wrote the rules about black operations. The atomic bomb was the mother of all black projects, and it is the parent from which all black operations have sprung. — Annie Jacobsen