Gombaude Quotes & Sayings

God performs grandeur wonders. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I hope Americans will read and study the Bible in the coming year. It's my firm belief that the enduring values, as I say, presented in its pages have a great meaning for each of us and for our nation. — Ronald Reagan

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. — Robert Burns

You can never right an intentional wrong. — Anoved Sivad

I've been a Fellow in a number of companies: Xerox, Apple, Disney, HP. There are certain similarities because all the Fellows programs were derived from IBM's, which itself was derived from the MIT 'Institute Professor' program. — Alan Kay

Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them. — Paul Johnson

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand. — Barry White

Why are we so afraid of silence? Teenagers cannot study without their records; they walk along the street with their transistors. Grownups are as bad if not worse; we turn on the TV or the radio the minute we come into the house or start the car. The pollution of noise in our cities is as destructive as the pollution of air. We show our fear of silence in our conversation: I wonder if the orally-minded Elizabethan's used "um" and "er" the way we do? And increasingly prevalent is what my husband calls an articulated pause: "You know." We interject "you know" meaninglessly into every sentence, in order that the flow of our speech should not be interrupted by such a terrifying thing as silence. — Madeleine L'Engle

I was a very sensitive kid who then had to condition myself to desensitize. — Nikki Reed

Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea. — David Price

Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city. — Adolf Hitler

I'm proud that I was able to start with nothing, plan it, and have it work as perfectly as it did ... I sleep clearly every night. — Paul Tibbets

The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling. — Charles E. Rosenberg

We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out is through. Like someone falling off a boat, struggling to stay above the water only makes things worse. We must accept we are there and settle enough so we can be carried by the deep. The willingness to do this is the genesis of faith, the giving over to currents larger than us. Even fallen leaves float in lakes, demonstrating how surrender can hold us up. — Mark Nepo

Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars. — Catherynne M Valente