Marabou Stork Nightmares Quotes & Sayings

In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a guarantee of impunity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Selflessness involves giving up your self. You become a martyr. Like the Hindu kamikaze warriors. These Japanese Hindus chose to give up their lives, and they were killed if they didn't. Imagine what their families felt. One day you have a father, and next, you're watching him fly a plane into a ship on Pearl Harbor on television. Those kids didn't do anything wrong. They just lived in an evil country. The axis of evil. That sort of evil is beyond anything you or I will experience in our lifetimes. So be glad. Be glad we live in the US of A. Be glad we get to choose, with our freedoms. Now get out there and fight! — Bill Konigsberg

Three great lessons for my children; love God, love yourself and love your neighbour as yourself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Exercising first thing in the morning ensures that you'll have the time for it, and it improves your self-control and energy levels all day long. — Travis Bradberry

It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They knew that religious principles provided morality and self-control - the lifeblood for the survival of any self-governing community. — David Barton

Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

There is little success where there is little laughter. — Andrew Carnegie

When we will learn to see
There is no you and me but only we
Then in this world peace will be. — Debasish Mridha

You never have known when to shut your hole, have ya, Minho? Always gotta have the bloody last word. — James Dashner

The roles could have easily been reversed. I wondered how God had chosen me to be born into such luxury when this little girl had been born into such hopelessness. — Katie J. Davis

Jesus said, "Judge not, that you be not judged" (Matthew 7:1). He went on to say, in effect, "If you do judge, you will be judged in exactly the same way." Who of us would dare to stand before God and say, "My God, judge me as I have judged others"? We have judged others as sinners - if God should judge us in the same way, we would be condemned to hell. Yet God judges us on the basis of the miraculous atonement by the Cross of Christ. — Oswald Chambers

I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm still working on it. — Jimmy Nail