Ishmaelites Today Quotes & Sayings

It's really good to be here and as I always say, it's really good to be anywhere! — Keith Richards

This is pretty much the infrastructural stuff that comes along with large quantities of energy. Whichever technology we are looking at has serious hazardous issues. — Stewart Brand

Patriotism, currently, is nothing but the deadly evolution of narrow minded politics which has distorted language. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties. — Niccolo Machiavelli

No man runs the race until he sees the dream. — Fred C. White

They got a lot of kids now whose uniforms are so tight, especially the pants, that they cannot bend over to pick up ground balls. And they don't want to bend over in television games because in that way there is no way their face can get on the camera. — Casey Stengel

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values. — Charles Caleb Colton

Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man ... , But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians - wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage. — Ron Reagan

It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Mom held me towards them. "Isn't she beautiful? Isn't she absolutely beautiful?"
Perhaps it was hormones talking; more likely, those were the words of a desperate woman who couldn't fathom the monster she had knit together in her room. But I was her monster, and if she didn't claim me, nobody would. — Marie Manilla

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself. — Thomas Carlyle

There is no dream, and if there is, there is only one to see you my children struggling for the same and for which I am expected to be finished. — Ashfaqulla Khan

And that, as we've seen, seems consistent with our broader explanatory habits-with the observation that much of what
we say when we're explaining what we've done is confabulation: stories we've made up (though quite sincerely) for ourselves and in response to others. In short-to overstate the point only slightly-because people don't really know why they do what they do, they give explanations of their own behavior that are about as reliable as anyone else's, and in many circumstances actually less so.1a — Kwame Anthony Appiah

We're not completely happy here because we're not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home; we were created for something much better. — Rick Warren

If we are saved and sanctified God guides us by our ordinary choices, and if we are going to choose what He does not want, He will check, and we must heed. Whenever there is doubt, stop at once. Never reason it out and say - "I wonder why I shouldn't?" God instructs us in what we choose, that is, He guides our common sense, and we no longer hinder His Spirit by continually saying - "Now, Lord, what is Thy will? — Oswald Chambers