Marks Maponyane Quotes & Sayings

Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light. — Abdu'l- Baha

Once there was a city of women. — Louise Carey

Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take toward your goal, whatever it is, whether it's giving up something, a terrible addiction or trying to work your way through an illness. When you total up those baby steps you'd be amazed over the course of 10 years, the strides you've taken. — Hoda Kotb

they all stem from the primal fault, which is idolatry, worshipping that which is not God as if it were. Second, they all show the telltale marks of the consequent fault, which is subhuman behavior, that is, the failure fully to reflect the image of God, that missing the mark as regards full, free, and genuine humanness for which the New Testament's regular word is hamartia, "sin." (Sin, we note, is not the breaking of arbitrary rules; rather, the rules are the thumbnail sketches of different types of dehumanizing behavior.) Third, it is perfectly possible, and it really does seem to happen in practice, that this idolatry and dehumanization become so endemic in the life and chosen behavior of an individual, and indeed of groups, that unless there is a specific turning away from such a way of life, those who persist are conniving at their own ultimate dehumanization. This — N. T. Wright

90 percent of people's problems could be prevented if they'd choose healthier people to give their hearts to. — Donald Miller

If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible. — Gary Bettman

That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that. — Amy Adams

What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier? — Walter Scott

Existential nausea comes from feeling trapped. It is an affect state resulting from the feeling that the future has only bad options. — Kim Stanley Robinson

You have to make changes before people are clamoring for changes. If people are asking for changes, it's too late. — David Shore

When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice. — Taylor Lautner

Mind is just in the middle. You are nothing but a mess. If you can go beyond it, intelligence grows in you; if you go below it, any intelligence that you had disappears. — Rajneesh

Look at all of the out-of-wedlock births that are going on, particularly in our inner cities. I have been speaking at a lot of the non-profit organizations that support organizations that support these women so that they don't have an abortion, so that they have the baby. — Benjamin Carson

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. — George Orwell

THE LAW OF THE GENERIC: One of the fastest routes to failure is giving a brand a generic name. — Al Ries