Esforce Quotes & Sayings

God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever. — Vance Havner

Broad based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Pioneering spirit should continue, not to conquer the planet or space ... but rather to improve the quality of life. — Bertrand Piccard

What a country calls its vital ... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. — Simone Weil

I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels. — Alison Tyler

From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed ... To group all facts under some general laws. — Charles Darwin

If we let go of the past, we will never learn from our mistakes. — Sarah Van Waterschoot

He created a craving. And that craving, it turns out, is what makes cues and rewards work. That craving is what powers the habit loop. — Charles Duhigg

With the growth of market individualism comes a corollary desire to look for collective, democratic responses when major dislocations of financial collapse, unemployment, heightened inequality, runaway inflation, and the like occur. The more such dislocations occur, the more powerful and internalized, Hayek insists, neoliberal ideology must become; it must become embedded in the media, in economic talking heads, in law and the jurisprudence of the courts, in government policy, and in the souls of participants. Neoliberal ideology must become a machine or engine that infuses economic life as well as a camera that provides a snapshot of it. That means, in turn, that the impersonal processes of regulation work best if courts, churches, schools, the media, music, localities, electoral politics, legislatures, monetary authorities, and corporate organizations internalize and publicize these norms. — William E. Connolly

and she had been unable to have any. So by 1955, after nine years of marriage, they were looking to adopt a child. — Walter Isaacson

Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man. — Francis Bacon

So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted out Marya's name because it was the first that came to mind, because in that moment she didn't want to get expelled and she couldn't think past that moment. She was scared, sure. But more importantly, maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again.

~Miles/Pudge on Alaska, pg 120-121 — John Green

I want my own books to have their own shelves, you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together. — David Levithan