Mcclymonds Stone Quotes & Sayings

Because I have something to say doesn't mean everyone has to take it too seriously or get too upset that it rubs them the wrong way. — Frank Fairfield

Don't grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead. — Confucius

[The Church] has lived through its early travails and has now come to accept an easier way of life. It is content to carry on its painless program with enough money to pay its bills and a membership large enough to assure its future. Its members now look to it for security rather than for guidance in the battle between good and evil. It has become a school instead of a barracks. Its members are students, not soldiers. They study the experiences of others instead of seeking new experiences of their own. — A.W. Tozer

As a displaced community, Tibetans often speak of learning to look to the future without forsaking tradition. And as Tibetans continue their flight from Tibet to India or Nepal and then scatter farther and farther away from the physical land of Tibet, the conversations on identity and culture become more crucial and complex. As the distance increases so does the desperation in keeping Tibet as the eventual home, our aspired home. Yet it is the loss of Tibet and its very distance that also awakens us to view patriotism and identity in new ways that are not guided solely by Buddhist philosophy. Self-assertion- an approach avoided in the past because of the Buddhist aspiration to prevent focus on the self- enters our identity as Tibetans. — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community. — Rowan Williams

Trying is fine. Failing is inevitable. Don't let it devour you. — Michelle Sagara

Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person. — Mark Twain

I feel comfortable in a position of leadership, but that's not to say I feel complacent about it. I take it incredibly seriously. — Nicola Sturgeon

I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of stuff. Casting. On the set there's not a lot for me to do. — Charlie Kaufman

I just wanna make the world dance, forget about the price tags. — Jessie J.

However, I was not long to rest in piece[sic], for in a few days I received a letter from Carter Brooks, as follows:
DEAR BARBARA: It was sweet of you to write me so promptly, although I confess to being rather astonished as well as delighted at being called "Dearest." The signature too was charming, "Ever thine." But, dear child, won't you write at once and tell me why the waist, bust and hip measurements? And the request to have them really low in the neck? Ever thine, CARTER.
It will be perceived that I had sent him the letter to mother, by mistake. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so digress? — T. S. Eliot

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy. — Marcus Aurelius

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine. — Andrea Dworkin