Ortberg Sermons Quotes & Sayings

What you do is look at yourself and find your own way to address the fact that the times have changed and that you have to pay attention. You can't be a designer and say, "Oh, this is timeless". — Paula Scher

But the only feature of the view that ever changed was the signatures of foam deposited on the beach by the waves. Each breaker, she supposed, was as unique as a human soul. Each made its own runup onto the shore, being the very embodiment of vigor and power at the start, but each slowed, spread thin, faltered, dissolved into a hissing ribbon of grey foam and got buried underneath the next. — Neal Stephenson

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think. — Eugenie De Guerin

I an old man,
A dull head among windy spaces. — T. S. Eliot

We should take comfort in two conjoined features of nature: first, that our world is incredibly strange and therefore supremely fascinating ... second, that however bizarre and arcane our world might be, nature remains potentially comprehensible to the human mind. — Stephen Jay Gould

Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people. — Susan B. Anthony

I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women. — Richard Adams

I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared. — Anne Bronte

Domains like Trade, Technology, Tourism, Talent and Tradition have the power to redefine existing paradigms. — Narendra Modi

People who are making it to 100 live in environments where they are regularly nudged into physical activity. — Dan Buettner

Are we so sure that Christ always knew what to do next? He knew what had to be done. It is not always the same as knowing what to do. — Dan Simmons

At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface."
"Crash."
"Quite slowly."
Face & Luke — Aaron Allston