Landesberger Quotes & Sayings

People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated. — D. A. Carson

A man is what he has passion about," Breeze said. "I've found that if you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll just end up miserable. — Brandon Sanderson

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others. — Denis Waitley

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.' — Noam Chomsky

Caesar. The Ides of March are come. Soothsayer. [2] Ay, Caesar; but not gone. — William Shakespeare

The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life. — Aly Khan

I would say it is because the striving and the power keep you from realizing just how helpless you really are. It protects you from facing the fact that others are manipulating you, that regardless of what you might claim, your philosophy is simply a way to rationalize what you do for others too afraid to do their own dirty work; that you are in a way also a victim of the apartheid state. You — Chris Abani

They've picked their heads up off the ground, and they now have a lot to carry on their shoulders. — Ron Atkinson

Govinda was standing in front of him, dressed in the yellow robe of an ascetic. Sad was how Govinda looked like, sadly he asked: Why have you forsaken me? At this, he embraced Govinda, wrapped his arms around him, and as he was pulling him close to his chest and kissed him, it was not Govinda any more, but a woman, and a full breast popped out of the woman's dress, at which Siddhartha lay and drank, sweetly and strongly tasted the milk from this breast. — Hermann Hesse

Should thousands of animals suffer so that a new kind of lipstick or floor wax can be put on the market? — Peter Singer

And you shouldn't assume that everything is always about you. — Ned Vizzini

It was not the money that was my main motive; it was the challenge and the thrill where I got my kicks. Armed robbery to me was like a sport. To take on an armored vehicle with two armed security guards - it was like an athlete attending the Olympic Games. — Drexel Deal

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism. — Hunter S. Thompson