Emir Mahira Quotes & Sayings

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments. — Edmond H. Fischer

He wasn't a talkative man to begin with, and in all aspects of life - as though it were a kind of mouth infection he wanted to avoid catching - he never talked about his feelings. — Haruki Murakami

Among Evangelical Christians, all of whom await the Second Coming of Jesus, there are historically two camps: postmillennialists and premillennialists. For most of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, most were of the "post" variety, meaning that they expected the Messiah's return after the thousand-year reign of peace. In order to hasten His arrival, they set out to create that harmonious world here and now, fighting for the abolition of slavery, prohibition of alcohol, public education, and women's literacy.
The chaos of the Civil War and industrialization caused many evangelicals to rethink their optimism. They determined that Jesus would actually arrive before the final judgment. Therefore any efforts toward a just society here on earth were futile; what mattered was perfecting one's faith. As historian Randall Balmer writes, these believers "retreated into a theology of despair, one that essentially ceded the temporal world to Satan and his minions. — Mark Sundeen

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues. — Plutarch

Even though I am fortunate to have certain luxuries, sometimes, I am even amazed by what people with money have and do. I want to remind people that just because you might be rich and famous, it doesn't mean you have to take yourself too seriously. — Nick Cannon

Keep silence, be mute.
If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD,
be an ear! — Rumi

Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish. — Wilson Follett

The value of your life is not measured in your success but your failures, your ability to fight, to make a better day for yourself is what you will remember in life's last challenge. — Westley Tusa

In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth. — Ransom Riggs

Wake up & Smell The Hot Chocolate ! ~ Eddie Havens — Susan Wiggs

If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another. — Harry S. Truman

No occupation is considered superior since everyone is doing his best where he is. — Sunday Adelaja

I want to share in endless ways,
My expression of love for you,
I'm no longer the beast of burden,
Twas lifted when I fell for you. — Truth Devour

Anything is possible when tackling a blank sheet with ink. It's less distracting because I'm away from my computer and all of its convenient diversions. — Brian Pinkerton