Khemmis Quotes & Sayings

Risk, then, is not just part of life. It is life. The place between your comfort zone and your
dream is where life takes place. It's the high-anxiety zone, but it's also where you discover
who you are. — Nick Vujicic

What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed. — Whitey Herzog

[Modern science] passed through a long period of uncertainty and inconclusive experiment, but as the instrumental aids to research improved, and the results of observation accumulated, phantoms of the imagination were exorcised, idols of the cave were shattered, trustworthy materials were obtained for logical treatment, and hypotheses by long and careful trial were converted into theories. — Thomas George Bonney

possibilities of our nature. Instead of reflecting first, we sometimes rush into thoughtless action. Instead of making a reflective, seriously intended, self-committing choice, we sometimes prefer to follow the line of least resistance and to drift lazily along, long-term consequences be damned. The entire environmental movement is based on these propositions. If it is not constituted by study groups, inquiries, data collection, publications, warnings and alarms, consciousness raising, propaganda, education, and political action campaigns designed, at a minimum, to raise public awareness, what is the environmental movement? If it is not concerned — Ronald Bailey

We need to give everybody a chance, treat everybody with respect, and let them share in this great American dream that we have. — John Kasich

In the distance I see a lighthouse. The light washes over us and continues on its rotation. This time, I don't know where the light will guide us. — Lauren DeStefano

Whatever you think rightly concerning will go well. Whatever you think wrongly concerning, will go ill. — Emmet Fox

Auschwitz?! That is a name I had heard before. There is not much time for thinking. It had been raining here not so long ago. The asphalt of the wet, wide platform reflects the light of the high lighting-poles. The row of armed SS men competes in howling with their dogs they hold on leashes — Azriel Feuerstein

As a matter of fact, when it comes to seeing, men display two tendencies: they see what they wish to see, what is useful to them, what is agreeable. The second is the tendency toward inhibition; they do not see what they do not wish to see, what is useless to them, or disagreeable. — Remy De Gourmont

Happiness has a high body count. — Mil Millington

As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind. — Chika Anadu

Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that's written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that. — Robert Caro

Unstructured chat with such friends has helped me understand Mrs Thatcher, the woman. (page xxvi) — Charles Moore

The Holiday Plan Chapter 2: Robbo's Secret — Jane Meadows

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God. — Peter Kreeft