Greenough Quotes & Sayings

You can't lie down in the ashes of another person's life. — Mattie Stepanek

I have a small child, so the idea of getting up at 3 a.m. to train before a day of shooting ... I just don't have it in me, although I have so much respect for people who do. — Amy Adams

You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging. — Frank McCourt

Sensitive periods are triggered via the interaction of genetic timing and experience. Sensitive periods are times of rapid learning when thousands of synaptic connections are made each second (Greenough, 1987; ten Cate, 1989). The timing of sensitive periods varies — Louis Cozolino

The common wish of the international community is for peace instead of war. — Li Zhaoxing

That some unevangelized men are saved, in the present life, by an extraordinary exercise of redeeming grace in Christ, has been the hope and belief of Christendom. It was the hope and belief of the elder Calvinists, as of the later. — William Greenough Thayer Shedd

Frogs are smart - they eat what bugs them. — William Greenough Thayer Shedd

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect. — William Greenough Thayer Shedd

It's simple, sir. We kick ass and go home," Sergeant Catz said to smiles and clapping. "Would you care to elaborate for those of us who weren't paying attention? — C.R. Daems

A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it. — William Greenough Thayer Shedd

Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. — Charles Alexander Eastman

An exceptional life isn't the result of lucky breaks but excellent choices. — Robin Sharma

When I was in Greenough, Montana, I came across a bear cub. I was off this path, and I thought, If there's a bear cub, that means there's a mother bear somewhere nearby. So I doubled back. If I'd kept going, I'm sure they would have eventually found my sneakers, and that's about it. — Al Roker

Changed to the elevated at the South Station, and at about twelve o'clock had climbed down the steps at Battery Street and struck along the old waterfront past Constitution Wharf. I didn't keep track of the cross streets, and can't tell you yet which it was we turned up, but I know it wasn't Greenough Lane. — H.P. Lovecraft

In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension. — Horatio Greenough

Why are you scared, John?'
'Because I know I'm not better.'
'Why do you think that?'
'Because I know it in my heart. — James Frey

There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline. — William Greenough Thayer Shedd

The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

They say that travelling broadens your mind, but first you must have a mind. — William Greenough Thayer Shedd

Now, get out there and kick ass! — Stella McCartney

The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls, disappears under a criticism that is all-comprehending and all-surveying. — William Greenough Thayer Shedd

For all the largesse of my mind's colony where a vividly enflamed man would take off each of the precious stones and melt away the cast, his success ultimately lay in being nice to me, being nice to himself irrespective of the behavior of each; of being proud of me and of himself irrespective of worldly success; holding me in regard with an almost primitive sense of courage, irrespective of the purity of my body or spirit. — Noorilhuda

Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God — William Greenough Thayer Shedd

The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while. — Jean Harris