Fighting Through The Storm Quotes & Sayings

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception. — Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Those who give much without sacrifice are reckoned as having given little. — Erwin W. Lutzer

On one hand, I think people are destined for something incredible if we don't wipe ourselves out, but I think we're going to wipe 90 percent of ourselves out. — Neill Blomkamp

Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile. — Adam Oates

I will admit that I just want an excuse to put all my favorite people in a room together. — Robin Sloan

Mosca and Saracen shared, if not a friendship, at least the solidarity of the generally despised. Mosca assumed that Saracen had his reasons for his persecution of terriers and his possessive love of the malthouse roof. In turn, when Mosca had interrupted Saracen's self-important nightly patrol and scooped him up, Saracen had assumed that she too had her reasons. — Frances Hardinge

I've also grown as an actor as I've got older in life. I've learnt how to go to work, immerse myself 100 per cent in the character and, at the end of the day, take it all off and go back, get a nice bubble bath, have a nice massage and realise that is not my life. And that feels good. — Halle Berry

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history. — Karl Jaspers

Because the world is in a sick condition and we are all somehow infected, against our will, even if we think we are whole in mind and soul and body. — Robert Graves

When it came to the dark fuckery of the human heart, there seemed to be no limit. — Stephen King

Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences. — Craig Venter

Want a sugar cube? he asks in his old seductive voice. — Suzanne Collins

This is an illustrious example which reminds us that good and saintly men sometimes run into the greatest of misfortunes and dangers not through their own but by someone else's fault. To the others, indeed, who are involved in the same danger no way of salvation or liberation appears, but they think that all is lost. But because there are some godly men, or only one godly man, in the same ship, the ship must reach port safe and sound, however much it has been tossed about by a heavy storm, even though a thousand devils have been fighting in opposition and causing tumult in the same ship. — Martin Luther

Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent ... If you want to judge your progress, ask yourself these questions: Am I more loving? Is my judgment sounder? Do I have more energy? Can my mind remain calm under provocation? Am I free from the conditioning of anger, fear, and greed? Spiritual awareness reveals itself as eloquently in character development and selfless action as in mystical states. — Eknath Easwaran