Hireling Shepherd Quotes & Sayings

I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build. — Julia Ward Howe

Christ proclaimed: "I am the good shepherd." He then further showed, and with eloquent exactness, the difference between a shepherd and a hireling herder. The one has personal interest in and love for his flock, and knows each sheep by name, the other knows them only as a flock, the value of which is gaged by number; to the hireling they are only as so many or so much. While the shepherd is ready to fight in defense of his own, and if necessary even imperil his life for his sheep, the hireling flees when the wolf approaches, leaving the way open for the ravening beast to scatter, rend, and kill. — James E. Talmage

The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art. — Lewis Baltz

Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command the respect of our colleagues. — Antoni Zygmund

Beauty's not only skin deep. Just because a person is beautiful
doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean
that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean
they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful
world. (Gabriel) — Rachel Cohn

Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She has dreamed of that freedom, that power, and fears the wildness in herself that wants to live as beasts live, moved purely by need and desire. She has felt torn between the heat of her limbs and the thoughts in her mind telling her to be careful and good and always calm.
Don't scream or cry, don't run to him and throw yourself at his feet, pleading for him to take you in his arms, don't strip off your clothes and run naked to the water, wild with wanting. — Francesca Lia Block

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world ... — Anais Nin

The girl kept up at night by fear, crouched under the covers, believing if death couldn't see her, then he couldn't take her. — Caitlin Doughty

The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves. — Walid Jumblatt

I hope the string and clapper arrangement he calls a mind has been permanently put out of action. — Dorothy Dunnett