Intelectuales Mexicanos Quotes & Sayings

Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us feel in our bones (not just know in our heads) that God is for us in all these strange turns. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching purposes for our good and for the glory of Jesus Christ. — John Piper

A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced. — Anne Enright

She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them. — Rebecca West

I'll quit competing when my heart quits beating — Michael Jordan

As far as being a deliveryman is concerned, I see nothing wrong with being a delivery man. You know, black or white or Hispanic or Chinese or whatever, you know? It's a job. — Meshach Taylor

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing. — Jane Austen

The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her. — H.L. Mencken

But since day one, we've always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it's not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn't know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was ... in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it's always been. — Will Arnett

I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me. — Danny Bonaduce

We can learn from a teacher. But in order to master, we must become the teacher. — Charles F. Glassman

The tech and tech media world are meritocracies. To fall back to race as the reason why people don't break out in our wonderful oasis of openness is to do a massive injustice to what we've fought so hard to create. — Jason Calacanis

I beg your pardon," said Lord Peter, "I was quoting poetry. Very silly of me. I got the habit at my mother's knee and I can't break myself of it. — Dorothy L. Sayers

What is courage? Let me tell you what I think it is. An indefinable quality that makes a man put out that extra something, when it seems there is nothing else to give. I dare you to be better than you are. I dare you to be a thoroughbred. — Herb Brooks

If we don't really listen, we end up doing what we think is best-- which usually isn't best at all. — S.N. Clemens

I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me. — Anthony Kiedis