Emandate Quotes & Sayings

I am far more interested in being a beginner than in trying to become an expert. Life is difficult and complicated for everyone - but it's very, very short. — Alastair Humphreys

The leader continually passes on the vision to those who come around, knowing that dreams, if presented right, are contagious. — John C. Maxwell

I could almost picture how when God was reaching down and closing the door of the ark, Noah might have been in there standing on tiptoe trying to see out for as long as he could. The Bible says Noah was six hundred years old when he went into the ark. I bet he noticed things in that last minute that he hadn't paid any attention at all to for the last five hundred fifty years. I — Douglas Kaine McKelvey

Sometimes friends have to suffer for their friends' happiness. — Elizabeth Eulberg

It must also be noted that until the present time this malady, like religious controversy, has been wholly confined to the continent of Europe. — Voltaire

I have a nice home, the office is close by, and the pay is good. — John F. Kennedy

Smile is God's gift but the Man who smiles is his creation. Never forget God when you are happy. — Me

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life! — Thomas Merton

Of all the human evils, of which we have thousands of years of record and our own contemporary experiences, the most horrible evil of all is hypocrisy. It's this idea that there are those who do bad and there are those who do good, when, in fact, even the people who supposedly do good are saying they do good to mask the fact that they do evil. — Francis Ford Coppola

The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement. — Edmund Burke

Unless you loosen the hold that your past has on you, your future will unfold in much the same way ... it is time to begin writing a new script that accurately reflects the beautiful, powerful, and worthy being you are. — David Simon

Fortune comes well to all that comes not late. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Open yer mind to the world, kids. No point havin' yer windows open if yer don't pull back the curtains to let in the light! - Grandpa's favourite saying to Kirsten and Jeremy. Quoted in The Hybrid and the Emeralds of Elisar — Suellen Drysdale

A degree from UC Berkeley will never change the fact that I cannot understand my grandfather when he asks for more coffee." - Esther G. Belin (Navajo) from In the Cycle of the Whirl. L — MariJo Moore