Gotron Aalst Quotes & Sayings

Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter. Men sleep around her altar, stretching themselves on beds of ease, or sit idly with folded hands looking lazily out on fields white for the harvest, but where no sickle rings against the wheat. — Frederic Dan Huntington

You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right. — Robert McChesney

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement. — Wayne Thiebaud

When an investigator has developed a formula which gives a complete representation of the phenomena within a certain range, he may be prone to satisfaction. Would it not be wiser if he should say 'Foiled again! I can find out no more about Nature along this line.' — Arthur Eddington

The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after a long nap. As spring gave way to summer, the bright green stalks darkened, became tan, turned golden brown. The days grew long and hot. Thick towers of swirling black clouds brought rain, and the brown stems glistened in the perpetual twilight that dwelled beneath the canopy. The wheat rose and the ripening heads bent in the prairie wind, a rippling curtain, an endless, undulating sea that stretched to the horizon. — Rick Yancey

When the man was disgraced and told to go away, he was allowed to ask all the animals whether any of them would come with him and share his fortunes and his life. There were only two who agreed to come entirely of their own accord, and they were the dog and the cat. And ever since then, those two have been jealous of each other, and each is for ever trying to make man choose which one he likes best. Every man prefers one or the other. — Richard Adams

Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path. — Thich Nhat Hanh

She said she didn't want to be here without him. — Veronica Roth

A text from Fable and it says one word. Marshmallow — Monica Murphy

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive. — Klaus Kinski

Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God. — John Piper

There is no cap to the potential within us, except when we place one on ourselves. — E'yen A. Gardner

I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity. — Norbert Elias

The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence to poverty through the vicissitudes of the times. They will give an impulse to smuggling unknown to the country heretofore. — John C. Calhoun