Pennistons Quotes & Sayings

I try not to manipulate reality ... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves. — Robert Barry

When you allow your past to define your present, you're setting yourself up for future disaster. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works. — James Mackintosh

God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don't forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I'd love to do it for him, but I can't be everywhere. — Willie Nelson

I'm starting to learn that if things are messy, or pieces don't get put back right, they are going to hurt, either way. — R. YS Perez

Time is running out for Iran to address the international community's growing concerns about its nuclear program. — Barack Obama

Life is there ahead of you and either one tests oneself in its challenges or huddles in the valleys of a dreamless day-to-day existence whose only purpose is the preservation of a illusory security and safety. The latter is what the vast majority of people choose to do, fearing the adventure into the known. — Saul Alinsky

A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion. — Al Pacino

See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it. — John Ruskin

I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see someone loving on their child, and it moves you, and you can't help it. It rings a bell inside of us that elevates us as human beings, and I treasure that. I think it's one of the few great things about human beings. — David Crosby

It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate. — Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

What happens is that all your life you operated businesses in such a way that you could one day afford to buy a baseball team. And then you buy the team and forget all the business practices that enabled you to buy it. — George Steinbrenner

A hard lesson had been learned
that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits. — Lois Lenski

I will buy you back with My blood because I love you. I will free you from the chains of sin. I will settle the conflict within and give peace to your soul. But you must come to Me with a repentant heart. You must be willing to be redeemed. You must exchange your sin-blackened heart for a new heart that is cleansed by My blood. — Billy Graham

Europe has shown how government can be organised in a network. Its institutions both compete and co-operate and include a directly elected parliament that does not appoint the executive, independent judiciaries and a complex set of relationships between the Commission, the Council of Ministers and the Parliament. — Geoff Mulgan