Nooha Quotes & Sayings

Civilization did not rise and flourish as men hammered out hunting scenes on bronze gates and whispered philosophy under the stars, with garbage as a noisome offshoot, swept away and forgotten. No, garbage rose first, inciting people to build a civilization in response, in self-defense. We had to find ways to discard our waste, to use what we couldn't discard, to reprocess what we couldn't use. Garbage pushed back. — Don DeLillo

if you are God's child, the life force that energizes your thoughts, desires, words, and actions is no longer you; it's Christ! — Paul David Tripp

Life is not about picking out the parts you like and leaving the rest, it's learning to coexist with it all and choosing to see the beauty, the grace, and the hilarity while also experiencing the inevitable disappointment and failure. — Alexis Jones

My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint. — Wayne Thiebaud

So the difference between a criminal and a hero is the order in which their vile crimes are committed. And justice comes with a sell-by date. In that case, you'd better hurry. You wouldn't want your heroism to spoil. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand. — Henry David Thoreau

It's as if my footprints were already on the road before I even got there.I walk into them, my waiting footprints. — Jackie Kay

Are we all here standing naked, taking guesses at the actual date and time? — Jason Mraz

Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them. — Henry David Thoreau

Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin or inmost nature. — John Stuart Mill

unless you fully recognize your complete dependence on God, you cannot know the real power of the Son in his true relationship with the Father. The specialness of God's Sons does not stem from exclusion but from inclusion. All my brothers are special. If they believe they are deprived of anything, their perception becomes distorted. When this occurs the whole family of God, or the Sonship, is impaired in its relationships. — Foundation For Inner Peace

In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface. — Hippolyte Taine

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide. — Jane Goodall