Fundamntally Quotes & Sayings

Friendship is the call out of isolation and selfishness in order to teach me how to love and how to serve. But without stability, friendship - real soul-searing friendship, the kind that makes us choose between domination and infatuation and possessiveness and dependence for growth and freedom and depth and responsibility and self-knowledge - is impossible.
Stability is what enables us, in other words, to live totally in God and totally for others. — Joan D. Chittister

The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5. — Jack Kilby

It seemed to be a matter of general agreement that Hardy Cates was born for trouble, and sooner or later he would find it. — Lisa Kleypas

As American Christians, we celebrate the idea that "all men are created equal." This statement from our Declaration of Indepenence is grounded in the biblical teaching that every person in the world has been formed in the image of God and therefore has instrinsic worth. it's a beautiful idea.
Subtly, however, this equality of persons shifts into an equality of ideas. Just as every person is equally valued, so every idea is equally valid. Applied to faith, this means that in a world where different people have different religious views, all such views should be treated as fundamntally equal.
In this system of thinking, faith is a matter of taste, not of truth ...
Then I implore you to consider the urgent need before us to forsake the American dream now in favor of radical abandonment to the person and purpose of Christ. — David Platt

There is a big difference between a disappointing friend and a deadly enemy. Of course the Democrats are disappointing. That's what makes them Democrats. If they were any more frustrating they'd be your relatives. But in this country they are all that stands between you and darkest night. You know why their symbol is the letter 'D'? Because it's a grade that means good enough, but just barely. You know why the Republican symbol is 'R'? Because it's the noise a pirate makes when he robs you and feeds you to a shark. — Bill Maher

Her face reflecting the color of her dress, she glowed even in her disappointment ... perhaps the way of her defiance to the fate. — Madhu Vajpayee

I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it. — Irwin Shaw

Sex is just sex. It's everything wrapped around it that's the problem. — Kelly Braffet

Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable. — Carl Nielsen

It's enthusiasm, not apathy, that makes the world go 'round. — Tony Alessandra

A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told. — Ninon De L'Enclos