Ervand Petrosyan Quotes & Sayings

From our limited vantage point, our lives are marked by an endless series of contingencies. We frequently find ourselves, instead of acting as we planned, reacting to an unexpected turn of events. We make plans but are often forced to change those plans. But there are no contingencies with God. Our unexpected, forced change of plans is a part of His plan. God is never surprised; never caught off guard; never frustrated by unexpected developments. God does as He pleases and that which pleases Him is always for His glory and our good. — Jerry Bridges

You and I can handle certain pressures. We don't feel the need to exaggerate or indulge in, quote, unquote, stress. We're survivors. We have perspective. Remember that. — Hilary Reyl

[I]f Modi is toast, it will in one sense be a tremendous pity. In his way, he represents a third generation in cricket's governance. For a hundred years and more, cricket was run by administrators, who essentially maintained the game without going out of their way to develop it. More recently it has been run by managers, with just an ounce or two of strategic thought. Modi was neither; he was instead a genuine entrepreneur. He has as much feeling for cricket as Madonna has for madrigals, but perhaps, because he came from outside cricket's traditional bureaucratic circles, he brought a vision and a common touch unexampled since Kerry Packer. — Gideon Haigh

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. — Robert A. Heinlein

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all. — Patricia Wentworth

Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead.
Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief
Shore his old thread in twain. — William Shakespeare

Back off before I turn your balls into a keyring. — Samantha Young

My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes things happen. — Christopher Walken

You fall for who the chemistry is with. — Vanessa Paradis