Discouragemnets Quotes & Sayings

I can look at something that others (might not) and I can see the value in it. I can make that film a film that everybody wants to see. — DeVon Franklin

The more that a person brings to design, the better his or her ability to communicate. — Michael Vanderbyl

Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught. — Pawan Mishra

Government should be set up so that no man need be afraid of another. — Montesquieu

If through all thy discouragemnets thy condition prove worse and worse, so that thou canst not pray, but are struck dumb when thou comest into his presence, as David, then fall making signs when thou canst not speak; groan, sigh, sob, "chatter, "as Hezekiah did; bemoan thyself for thine unworthiness, and desire Christ to speak thy requests for thee, and God to hear him for thee. — Thomas Goodwin

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death
ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. — James Baldwin

My wife tells me I should check out 'Downton Abbey', but I gather that series might be almost too intense for my temperate nature. — Michael Dirda

Jesus fought Satan in 'hand to hand combat' ... 'you need to protect this victory.' — Pope Francis

There is no such thing as making the miracle happen spontaneously and on the spot. You've got to work. — Martina Arroyo