Sayre Quotes & Sayings

Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace. — Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.

Every time someone tried to explain to me there are limits to what one man can do, I pointed to the boundless sky and said, 'There is the limit'. — Jaiprakash Gaur

There is no pill, no drug, that can do for you what one hour of exercise can. — Greg LeMond

History down through the centuries has proved again and again that there can be but one outcome to a struggle for selfish power against forces fighting to protect and advance human rights. Those genuinely serving humanity always ultimately emerge triumphant. It is under their standards that the [Western] allies choose to throw in their lot for humanity's defense. — Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.

Why is he following me? Why are you following me?" He grabbed her arm. "D'Sayre is trying to learn your secrets. Me? I just want a kiss." He pulled her into his embrace and pressed his lips to hers. — Laurel O'Donnell

Now we just need to find someone who is close to the king but is really a spy for Mydogg."
"That should be easy. I could probably shoot an arrow out the window and hit one. — Kristin Cashore

So also is the case if I don't care the one abusing me. He is the one going to be demeaned. — Gautama Buddha

Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work. — Steven Pressfield

Sunset is such a sad hour," she said, presently. "If I watch the end of a day - any day - I always feel it's the end of a whole epoch. And the autumn! It might as well be the end of everything," he said. "That's why I hate cold countries, and love the warm ones, where there's no winter, and when night comes you feel an opening up of the life there, instead of a closing down. Don't you feel that? — Paul Bowles

Some people are beams of light in this world. Some are shadows. They don't always feel like they belong, or don't know how, so they stand in the back of the crowd, out of sight and off to the edge somewhere. — David Sayre

Silence is more musical than any song. — Christina Rossetti

Better to have to retrace your steps and then move forward than never to move forward at all. — Anne Burack Sayre

So the need for another economic model is urgent, and if the climate justice movement can show that responding to climate change is the best chance for a more just economic system ... — Naomi Klein

There was lightning behind Mr. Sayre's eyes, and it was looking for a place to strike. — Robert McCammon

That goes for old wounds, too, you know. I really wish we'd had the chance to talk before this," he says, cracking the window so the smoke can escape. "There's a Longfellow quote I have stuck on my bulletin board at the church office- 'There is no grief like the grief that does not speak'- and it's true. I've found that keeping pain inside doesn't give it a chance to heal, but bringing it out into the light, holding it right there in your hands and trusting that you're strong enough to make it through, not hating the pain, not loving it, just seeing it for what it really is can change how you go on from there. Time alone doesn't heal emotional wounds, Sayre, and you don't want to live the rest of your life bottled up with anger and guilt and bitterness. That's how people self-destruct. — Laura Wiess

The night has come and yet the light is still shining. A warmth is present and life is still great. No darkness can put out the light of truth. It remains forever. The heart is still full within the redeemed and love is always strong. Praise Jesus. — Calvin W. Allison

I'd like to say that people ... people can change anything they want to. And that means everything in the world. Show me any country ... and there'll be people in it just trying to take their humanity back into the center of the ring ... And follow that for a time. Y'know, think on that. Without people you're nothing. — Joe Strummer

Religion isn't yours firsthand until you doubt it right down to the ground. — Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.

-no, I was a strange new Zelda Sayre released from all constrictions, drunk with the timeless rhythms of sea and sun and passion, more daring and oblivious to danger than I'd ever been before. — Therese Anne Fowler

By keeping your vision in mind - imagining it vividly and regularly - you automatically teach your unconscious mind to lead you to that day. And won't — Kent Sayre

No, no, no, so not getting the point of fear. Because fear wasn't about what made sense. Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might. — Michael Grant

The No. 1 source in the State Department was Alger Hiss, who was then an assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State, Francis Sayre, the son-in-law of Woodrow Wilson. The No. 2 source in the same Department was Henry Julian Wadleigh, an expert in the Trade Agreements Division, to which he had managed to have himself transferred from the Agriculture Department. He had done so at the request of the Communist Party — Whittaker Chambers

Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church. — C.J. Mahaney