Extolled Bible Quotes & Sayings

We have a saying in my house, my kids and my girlfriend. We say, 'Be your best for the greater good, and rock out wherever you are.' — Michael Franti

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He is fifteen and ten and five. He is an instant. He is flying back to her. He is hers again. She feels the weight of him in her chest as he comes into her arms. He is her son, her beloved child, and she takes him back. — Ann Patchett

Because of his capacity for abstract communications and language and his ability to enter in imagination into the lives of others, man is able to build organizations of a size and complexity far beyond those of the lower animals. — Kenneth E. Boulding

It's for the Palestinians to decide who will lead them. — Ami Ayalon

Joanne Woodward's Mrs. Bridge is one of the best performances ever given on film of a middle-aged woman. — Jeanine Basinger

The life we live today - the environment in which we live - is not one of security - it's one of doubt, one of suspicion, one of absolute tension - we're not a pastoral society any more. We feel around us the pressure of man's inadequacy to control his own development. The time when the great forces of nature, the stones and the rocks, were the gods, is gone. — Reg Butler

Actors like Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman, they totally immerse themselves in their parts. — Sean Bean

I'm continually confronted with the human tendency to ignore or deny facts until the last possible instant. And then for several days after that, too." Attavio — John Scalzi

It's hard to sin if you're preoccupied with Jesus. — Derwin L. Gray

This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent on him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgement, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community
the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience, and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves. — Andrew Carnegie

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done. — Richard Attenborough