Ribacka Quotes & Sayings

I am personally thankful that we live together in a large moral house even if we do not drink at the same fountain of faith. The world we experience together is one world, God's world, and our world, and the problems we share are common human problems. So we can talk together, try to understand each other, and help each other. — Lewis B. Smedes

Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you're alive and able - be good. 18. — Marcus Aurelius

Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye to their mutual intercourse and traffic among mankind, that the nations of the several parts of the globe might have a kind of dependence upon one another and be united together by their common interest. — Joseph Addison

Success should not necessarily be gauged by always reaching the goal set, but by progress and attainment. — Spencer W. Kimball

I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity. — Orlando Bloom

The ordinary man is aware of his surroundings, first, by naming and labelling them; second, by linking them with past memory of them; and third, by relating them to his own personal self. The illumined egoless man is simply aware of them, without any of these other added activities. — Paul Brunton

To me, the simplest things can have the highest value. — Brunello Cucinelli

One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife's consent. — Kyle Chandler

How about those Olympics, ladies and gentlemen. Didn't London look like the place to be? New York City was in the running for this Olympics. But here's what happened. We got outbribed. — David Letterman

It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity, faith and security. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I suddenly wished to go back, to have again each separate day to spend. Time. I was trapped in it, fenced into a tiny piece of now that was the only time I could influence. All the soons and tomorrows I might plan were ghost things that might be snatched from me at any moment. Intentions were nothing. Now was all I had. — Robin Hobb

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds. — Charles Dickens

Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them. — John Dewey

There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures. — Gertrude Stein