December Global Quotes & Sayings

We took the elevator back down from the first observation level of the Eiffel Tower and started walking in he direction of the Taj Mahal — D.J. MacHale

They'll like it even less if I hear any words from them, I said. You have to be firm with colonial troops: they have only as much backbone as their commanding officer. — Charles Stross

Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized. — Thomas Sowell

Jim Harbaugh has done a great job of coaching in the NFL no matter how you put it. — John Madden

As bread is the first need of the body, so forgiveness for the soul. — Andrew Murray

The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God. — R.C. Sproul

We seek more and more privacy, and feel more and more alienated and lonely when we get it. — Philip Slater

The idea that I really like is December 21st, 2012. Try to get a global moment of collective reflection as a way to bring about an uptick in human consciousness. — Daniel Pinchbeck

According to Hindu cosmology, we're in the kali yuga, a dark period when the cow of history is balanced precariously on one leg, soon to topple. Then there are our new-age friends who believe that this December we're in for a global cage-rattling which, once the dust has settled, will usher in a great spiritual awakening. Most of this apocalyptic noise appears to be just wishful thinking on the part of people who find life too messy and uncertain for comfort, let alone for serenity and mirth. — Tom Robbins

I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other. — Ralph Steadman