Examplary Quotes & Sayings

This is human nature: to find a morality that is comfortable and convenient and let it suffice for holiness. But it is not. So you ride your bike to work, or drive a hybrid car - but — John Eldredge

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else. — Charles Kennedy

We Are The Salt Of The Earth, We should Add Godly Flavour to People's Lives via Our Words — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

People will follow what they see, and not what they are only told to do — Sunday Adelaja

Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Her worst nightmare and her wettest dream. — Gail McHugh

Every thing's for sale out here. Anything you want. About the only thing you can't buy is my dignity and self-respect, cause those were the first to go. And I gave them away for free. - excerpt from: freefalling — Darlenne Susan Girard

I won't let any ambassador have a say about my foreign travels. — Milos Zeman

I made an airplane out of stone ... I always did like staying home. — Shel Silverstein

Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or producing, work-making activity of the human mind. By Poetry I mean, not the particular art which consists in writing verses, but a process both more general and more primary: that intercommunication between the inner being of things and the inner being of the human Self which is a kind of divination (as was realized in ancient times; the Latin vates was both a poet and a diviner). Poetry, in this sense, is the secret life of each and all of the arts. — Jacques Maritain

If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now. — Mildred H. McAfee

Let the government not be an instructor but a parent who loves and adjusts to the needs of the nation, But remember a parent does what makes things look good to the entire family without segregation. — Auliq Ice

I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world. — Bernie Mac

There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it. — Clay Shirky

If originals aren't reliable judges of the quality of their ideas, how do they maximize their odds of creating a masterpiece? They come up with a large number of ideas. Simonton finds that on average, creative geniuses weren't qualitatively better in their fields than their peers. They simply produced a greater volume of work, which gave them more variation and a higher chance of originality. "The odds of producing an influential or successful idea," Simonton notes, are "a positive function of the total number of ideas generated. — Adam M. Grant