Rumbaut 2014 Quotes & Sayings

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here. — Simon Cowell

If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer — Ajahn Chah

In short, we have no positive, inner desire to pray. We do it only when circumstances force us. Why? We know God is there, but we tend to see him as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, he has not become our happiness. We therefore pray to procure things, not to know him better. — Timothy J. Keller

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. — Henry David Thoreau

To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power. — Michael Scott

A mapping of discovery should be carried out — Sunday Adelaja

I have learned that there's no way to open yourself to the experience of God while retaining your cool, your sense of ironic detachment. — Ken Wilson

If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable to the same reproach? Men are not apt to change their character by agglomeration; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with the consciousness of their strength. And for these reasons I can never willingly invest any number of my fellow creatures with that unlimited authority which I should refuse to any one of them. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind. — Anthony Liccione

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The unwholesome may be otherwise, but the Whole is ever holy. — Fakeer Ishavardas

Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing! — William Morris Hunt

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress. — Geraldine Ferraro