Knippenberg Nationwide Quotes & Sayings

Self-control is an exhaustible resource. This is a crucial realization, because when we talk about "self-control," we don't mean the narrow sense of the word, as in the willpower needed to fight vice (smokes, cookies, alcohol). We're talking about a broader kind of self-supervision. Think of the way your mind works when you're giving negative feedback to an employee, or assembling a new bookshelf, or learning a new dance. You are careful and deliberate with your words or movements. It feels like there's a supervisor on duty. That's self-control, too. — Chip Heath

These special holidays give rise to various liturgical calendars that suggest we should mark our days not only with the cycles of the moon and seasons, but also with occasions to tell our children the stories of our faith community's past so that this past will have a future, and so that our ancient way and its practices will be rediscovered and renewed every year. — Brian D. McLaren

The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining. — Gore Vidal

When you need a haircut, it looks like you have no one to take care of you. — Lemony Snicket

No span of steel will tolerate ... neglect. But if service by generations who use it and spared manmade hazards, such as war, it should have life without end. — Joseph Straus

It has not been a successful life.'
'No
it has only been a beautiful one. — Henry James

I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side. — Alexander McCall Smith

Falling in love is easy, you see; any idiot can do it. It's falling out of love that's hard. — Claudia Carroll

*Saving the best for last* is only OK if you're sure of when you're going kick the bucket. Otherwise, I'm afraid, you could be *Saving the best for dust.* — Mokokoma Mokhonoana