Kari Jobe The Blessing Quotes & Sayings

There might well be deep evolutionary reasons for these fears; it made sense, millennia ago, to fear situations where we had no control and situations that involved malevolent attackers. In our modern world, however, the things we really ought to fear are almost entirely of our own doing. Failing to climb the stairs and get enough exercise kills far more people than any number of murderers climbing those stairs. You are at far greater risk of taking your own life than being killed by a terrorist. If you were to go strictly by the numbers, that cigarette in your hand ought to have you screaming louder than a chance encounter with Hannibal Lecter. — Shankar Vedantam

In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules. — Bernard Madoff

It's true though, that the impulse to give freely to the world seems to be at the bottom of the well of human intentions where the purest and clearest water arises. To be able to offer back what the world has given you, but shaped a little by your touch - that makes a true life. — John Tarrant

The gap between our real power and what people expect from us is the source of the most difficult pressure any head of state has to manage. — Moises Naim

I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better! — Donald Fagen

I like the influence and responsibility the Red Cross has become known for. — Zulay Henao

Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him." — Thomas Carlyle

Grief sounds like a bad thing," I said, frowning. "Why don't you and Naha and Mama get rid of it?" "That would require removing love from existence. — N.K. Jemisin

The challenge before us is to savor the unknown and delight in the taste of possibility. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie! — Wendell Phillips

They had such a good meet-cute," I croak. — Jenny Han