Pokeryes Quotes & Sayings

By forty, is there anyone who hasn't had to recognize that happiness, as understood by youth, is illusory? That the best one can hope for is an absence of too many tragedies and that the road through the inevitable grief be, if not smooth, then steady? — Robin Black

You can't be a change-maker by reading a book. — Bill Drayton

The more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think the same is true of human beings. — Henry David Thoreau

It is by serving God and others that we store up heavenly treasures. Everyone gains; no one loses. — Randy Alcorn

We see an ever-increasing move toward inter and trans- disciplinary attacks upon problems in the real world ... The system scientist has a central role to play in this new order, and that role is to first of all understand ways and means of how to encode the natural world into "good" formal structures. — John L. Casti

The Christian is to take his place in society with moral courage to stand up for that which is right, just, and honorable. — Billy Graham

What you don't catch a glimpse of on your wedding day- because how could you?- is that some days you will hate your spouse, that you will look at him and regret ever exhchanging a word with him, let alone a ring and bodily fluids. — Nick Hornby

You cannot compensate by sacrifice what you lose through disobedience — Edwin Louis Cole