Ghassani Quotes & Sayings

We cannot learn patience by reading a book or hearing a lecture. The only way we can learn patience is by going through the trials that God assigns to us. The trials of life are the tools God uses to mature us, to build our faith, and to get us to trust the Spirit and not the flesh. — Warren W. Wiersbe

A strong back is a big help but not even the strongest back was built for that treatment, and there combine not just at the kidneys, ad rill down the thighs and up the spine and athwart the shoulders, the ticklish weakness of gruel or water, and an aching that increases in geometric progression, and at length, in the small of the spine, a literal sensation of yielding, buckling, splintering, and breakage: and all of this, even though the mercy of nature has strengthened and hardened your flesh and anesthetized your nerves and your powers of reflection and imagination, reaches in time the brain and the more mirrorlike nerves, and thereby makes itself much worse than before. — James Agee

A lie faces God and shrinks from man. — Francis Bacon

Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do. — Heraclitus

The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat. — Elizabeth Bishop

No matter how many people tell you, Save your money, when you've got a series, you never do. Somehow it doesn't seem important. Maybe it's because you've been without money for so long as an actor. — David Morse

I have learned,' said Lymond, 'that kindness without love is no kindness. — Dorothy Dunnett

Presuming I don't fuck up with the hydrazine, there's still the matter of burning hydrogen. I'm going to be setting a fire. In the Hab. On purpose. If you asked every engineer at NASA what the worst scenario for the Hab was, they'd all answer "fire." If you asked them what the result would be, they'd answer "death by fire. — Andy Weir

The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion. — B.R. Ambedkar

Oh despise not election! therein lies all your hope, that there is a remnant who shall infallibly be saved. — Thomas Goodwin

I know that to be a good player, you have to stay healthy, and you have to be as athletic as you can possibly be. — Steve Nash

A role can go from being a babe to anything, as long as it's something that makes me curious. — Connie Nielsen

Everything in the air that is beneath me, especially if it is a one seater ... is lost, for it cannot shoot to the rear. — Manfred Von Richthofen