Prachtige Borsten Quotes & Sayings

A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone. — Saul Bellow

The reason we need books like these is that the Gospels cannot simply be taken at face value as giving us historically reliable accounts of the things Jesus said and did. — Bart D. Ehrman

Silence was a thing entrusted to the animals, the girl thought. Many things that human words have harmed are restored again by the silence of animals — Joy Williams

We live in a society of {more, faster, and extra.} So we feel the need to respond {more, faster, and extra.} Such a useless exercise. So much joy can be found in slowing down. — Emily Ley

The question of God, by contrast, is one that can and must be pursued in terms of the absolute and the contingent, the necessary and the fortuitous, potency and act, possibility and impossibility, being and nonbeing, transcendence and immanence. — David Bentley Hart

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source. — Andrew Johnson

I don't know about Willie Davis. He's not as young as he used to be. — Jerry Coleman

People like to know you're listening, and something as simple as a clarification question shows not only that you are listening but that you also care about what they're saying. You'll be surprised how much respect and appreciation you gain just by asking good questions. — Travis Bradberry

Ever since Roberta Wohlstetter's pathbreaking study of why the United States was taken by surprise at Pearl Harbor 50 years ago, both academics and members of the Intelligence Community (IC) have made significant progress in understanding intelligence failures. About how to correct these errors and do better we know much less, however, and it is to this subject that this volume makes a major contribution. --Foreword to Cases in Intelligence Analysis: Structured Analytic Techniques in Action — Robert Jervis

Develop new stories from new positive experiences and relationships - the experiences of your emerging new self! — Bryant McGill

You don't have to love me but you damn well have to respect me. — Toni Morrison

The benevolent gentleman is sorry; but, then, the thing happens every day! One sees girls and mothers crying at these sales, always! it can't be helped, etc.; and he walks off, with his acquisition, in another direction. — Harriet Beecher Stowe