Kennon Quotes & Sayings

Jazz hadn't given her many details of exactly what life in the Dent house had been like, but he'd told her enough that she knew it wasn't hearts and flowers. Well, except for the occasional heart cut from a chest. And the kind of flowers you send to funerals. — Barry Lyga

When the hatred stops will the love begin? When there is no more greed will there then be peace? — Sherman Kennon

We cannot resist change, but we can choose the direction of change. — Kennon Callahan

When climbing, you don't have to put your foot on every step, jump over some of them! When solving your problems, you don't have to solve each and every one, jump over some of them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th. — Tina Brown

to do with Lottie's final wishes for her memoirs. With the help of Millie and Henry, Fran and — Meredith Kennon

They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten. — William Golding

A lie is still a lie
even if it's disguised
as the truth. — Sherman Kennon

Money follows mission, not the reverse. This is a shorthand way of saying that the stronger the congregation's relational characteristics, the easier it is to raise money. The stronger the congregation's mission, visitation, groupings, leadership, and decision making, the stronger the giving. — Kennon Callahan

I know what the world has done to my brother and how narrowly he has survived it. And I know, which is much worse, and this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it. One can be, indeed one must strive to become, tough and philosophical concerning destruction and death, for this is what most of mankind has been best at since we have heard of man. (But remember: most of mankind is not all of mankind.) But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime. — James Baldwin

Because love does not do sums, but instead make choices, and then gives its all. — Tad Williams

The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about. — Jane Mayer

Living is giving. We live life best as we give our strengths, gifts, and competencies in the service of God's mission. We are called to serve, not survive. Our giving makes a difference in our families, our work, our community, our world, and our church. — Kennon Callahan

If we have a situation where a man is particularly graceful in a sport that rewards grace - say, for example, figure skating - why is it that we don't say to the man, 'Well, you're too feminine to compete?' ... I don't understand why we don't find it offensive also to say to a women who's very strong, 'You're too masculine to compete.' — Alice Dreger

Goldman Sachs did not leave the house before it began to burn; it was merely the first to dash through the exit - and then it closed the door behind it. — Michael Lewis

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it ... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power. — Barbara Deming

I have respected women from the beginning of my life. — Julio Iglesias

I chase the wind and get lost in the clouds. I'm sweep into darkness in my search for the light. — Sherman Kennon

Kami: I beg you not to throw down with Angela.
Jared: I know you want us to get on, but-
Kami: She'll beat you down until you cry. I'll be so embarrassed for you. — Sarah Rees Brennan

No one can make you feel inferior unless you allow them to. — Sherman Kennon

To be truly happy you must recognize who you are with nothing. — Gangaji