Schauwolle Quotes & Sayings

A limited mind will have a limited world! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free. — Wallace Stegner

The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone. — Benjamin Franklin

The routine requires balancing a number of virtues: freedom and discipline, craft and protocol, specialized ability and group collaboration. And for checklists to help achieve that balance, they have to take two almost opposing forms. They supple a set of checks to ensure the stupid but critical stuff is not overlooked, and they supply another set of checks to ensure people talk and coordinate and accept responsibility while nonetheless being left the power to manage the nuances and unpredictabilities the best they know how. — Atul Gawande

Jesus gives us the gift of the Holy Spirit, yet when the Spirit comes, He is loaded with packages! He desires to release much more in us and through us than we could ever imagine. These gifts are given for delivery, not for accumulation. We receive them to pass them on to others. — Jack W. Hayford

In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make. — Jackie Chan

I beg the Lord to grant us more politicians who are genuinely disturbed by the state of society, the people, the lives of the poor! — Pope Francis

Unless we realize that the present market society, structured around the brutally competitive imperative of "grow or die," is a thoroughly impersonal, self-operating mechanism, we will falsely tend to blame technology as such or population growth as such for environmental problems. We will ignore their root causes, such as trade for profit, industrial expansion, and the identification of "progress" with corporate self-interest. In short, we will tend to focus on the symptoms of a grim social pathology rather than on the pathology itself, and our efforts will be directed toward limited goals whose attainment is more cosmetic than curative. — Murray Bookchin

This is the hardest: to give yourself
and know that you are unwanted,
to give yourself fully and to think
that you vanish like smoke into the void. — Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. — George S. Patton

When we [adoption agency] have a birth mother who is pregnant and she doesn't know the race of the father, she is using drugs, and she is in crisis, usually we cannot place that baby with a heterosexual family. Almost all of the times when we have a drug-addicted child, we place the baby in a homosexual family. — Rosie O'Donnell

Christmas: the Son of God expressing the love of God to save us from the wrath of God so we could enjoy the presence of God. — John Piper