Gekend Worden Quotes & Sayings

ATIONS. Life after death was one thing, life coming into the world was another. Georgia was calm. Beautiful. An old pro, as she put it. But I had missed the first time around, and I was afraid to blink for fear of missing something. And I was not calm.
Tag was not calm either. He had to wait outside. He was my best friend, but even best friends did not share some things. Plus, I didn't think Georgia could give birth and keep us both from passing out.
It was all I could do to hold Georgia's hand and stay at her bedside, praying to God, to Gi, to Eli, to anyone who would listen, to give me strength and self-control. Strength to be the man Georgia needed and self-control to resist covering the walls of Georgia's hospital room in a frenzied mural — Amy Harmon

I'm very interested in writing an actual series, that doesn't have too much to do with my music - a world I create that has characters in it. I'm just trying to get there by doing things that I want to do. — Reggie Watts

Papa is just a kid who's playing the dead serious grown-up. — Muriel Barbery

There are no absolutes for something so relative as a human life.
There are no rules for something so gentle as a heart. — Hugh Prather

Balance provides the chance for longevity. You can be a champion at work and at home. — Tony Dungy

When we are clear enough about our own point of view, we can find help in the methods of Eastern Christianity or in the ways of the Far East, perhaps by consulting the I Ching or through mandala contemplation; we may even find help in the ways of shamanism or Islam. If we are clear about where we stand and the direction we must take, such methods may be useful in order to follow our own way to the end. — Morton T. Kelsey

If you put your mind in calm, the world will put you in peace. — Chhenghak Yang

Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about. — Iain Duncan Smith

I believe the discussion itself is divine. — Rob Bell

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For that reason we should do (as wise programmers aware of our limitations) our utmost to shorten the conceptual gap between the static program and the dynamic process, to make the correspondence between the program (spread out in text space) and the process (spread out in time) as trivial as possible. — Edsger Dijkstra

Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good. — James Hunter

I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing, and activities on the ground, that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power throughout which you bring about redistributive change. And in some ways, we still suffer from that. — Barack Obama

Some people just liked putting limitations on others. They liked having the power to say "No, you cannot do that." They liked to decide what was good for someone else and then take away that person's right to decide for themselves. But there was no adventure in life if you did only what was safe and allowed. — Kelly Romo

I am weary of personal worrying,
in love with the art of madness. — Rumi