Sashcloth And Axes Quotes & Sayings

To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn. — Isaac Asimov

I have a time machine at home. It only goes forward at regular speed — Demetri Martin

I had no idea how to live a day without her next to me. How to breathe without her by my side. — Tillie Cole

At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper. — Sebastian Coe

River smiled sweetly at his tormentors and told them, "If you want to kick my ass, go ahead. Just explain to me why you're doing it."
After a confused pause, one of the skinheads said, "Ah, you wouldn't be worth it."
"We're all worth it, man," River said with a beatific smile. "We're all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes. — Gavin Edwards

What's happening is merely what's happening. How you feel about it is another matter. — Neale Donald Walsch

Every single person is a beautiful human being, and we're lucky. That's what gives you longevity. You have to love the people that you work with. — Katee Sackhoff

Bett didn't have any siblings because she said her father had preserved what was dead for too long to be able to create life. When Bet was younger and had begged for one, her father gave her a marmot he' stuffed for a man from Wyoming.
"This is your brother Christopher," he'd said, placing the marmot on Bett's pillow one night. "He doesn't talk much, so you'll have to pick up the slack there. — Rebecca Rasmussen

If a tiny spark of God's love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out ... Stay quiet with God. Do not spend your time in useless chatter ... Do not give yourself to others so completely that you have nothing left for yourself. — Carlo Borromeo

Teach him to deny himself. — Robert E.Lee

SATAN, n. One of the Creator's lamentable mistakes, repented in sashcloth and axes. Being instated as an archangel, Satan made himself multifariously objectionable and was finally expelled from Heaven. Halfway in his descent he paused, bent his head in thought a moment and at last went back. "There is one favor that I should like to ask," said he. "Name it." "Man, I understand, is about to be created. He will need laws." "What, wretch! you his appointed adversary, charged from the dawn of eternity with hatred of his soul - you ask for the right to make his laws?" "Pardon; what I have to ask is that he be permitted to make them himself." It was so ordered. — Ambrose Bierce

Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions. — Josh Billings

Affirm it, visualize it, believe it and it will actualize itself. — Norman Vincent Peale

It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining — Lyndon B. Johnson

I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with. — Beverley Mitchell

Milton Erickson was a master at using experiential techniques to elicit strengths that were previously dormant. Mills and Crowley have masterfully captured essential elements of Erickson's work and applied it to therapy with children. Easy to read, meticulously referenced, and filled with inspiring case studies, Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within has now been updated with important new findings, and it's essential reading for clinicians who work with children as well as for those who want to improve their use of therapeutic metaphor. — Jeffrey K. Zeig