Ninette Shibara Quotes & Sayings

Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration. Many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power. — Norman Vincent Peale

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years. — Henry Ward Beecher

Angels do not tire, said the Angel, because they do not scrimp on their strength. If you are not thinking about the finiteness of your strength, you will not tire, either. Know, O Areseny, that only he who does not fear drowning is capable of walking on water. — Evgenij Vodolazkin

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is. — Jose Saramago

For the good of the people, some must place themselves in harm's way. Some must pledge their courage and their lives to protect the community. — Jim Butcher

A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual's instinct to survive - and nowhere else! - and must correctly describe the hierarchy of survival, note the motivations at each level, and resolve all conflicts. — Robert A. Heinlein

You can't get a friend more loyal than your dog. — Dale Jarrett

The opposite of addiction is human connection. And I think that has massive implications for the war on drugs. The treatment of drug addicts almost everywhere in the world is much closer to Tent City than it is to anything in Portugal. Our laws are built around the belief that drug addicts need to be punished to stop them. But if pain and trauma and isolation cause addiction, then inflicting more pain and trauma and isolation is not going to solve that addiction. It's actually going to deepen it. — Johann Hari

True simplicity is elegant. — E.L. Konigsburg

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals. — Mark Twain

A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself. — John Ruskin