Scowcroft Institute Quotes & Sayings

Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving. — Penn Jillette

That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness? — Sean Penn

Worship-based prayer seeks the face of God before the hand of God. God's face is the essence of who He is. God's hand is the blessing of what He does. God's face represents His person and presence. God's hand expresses His provision for needs in our lives. I have learned that if all we ever do is seek God's hand, we may miss His face; but if we seek His face, He will be glad to open His hand and satisfy the deepest desires of our hearts. — Daniel Henderson

For Colin Firth:
You're a really great guy, but I'm married, so I think we should just be friends. — Shannon Hale

The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly. — Randy Bachman

When a husband stops paying attention to the garden, he's thinking of pulling up roots. — Amy Tan

We had a big Cancer Team Meeting a couple days later. Every so often, a bunch of doctors and social workers and physical therapists and whoever else got together around a big table in a conference room and discussed my situation. (Not the Augustus Waters situation or the Amsterdam situation. The cancer situation.) — John Green

You're denying it? Okay then, fine, let's settle this once and for all. Smile if you want to sleep with me.- Feral Sins — Suzanne Wright

God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is foreshadowing. And that is what God was doing at the Cloisters and with Eudora Welty. He was foreshadowing. He was laying traps, leaving clues, clues I could have seen had I been perceptive enough. — Lauren F. Winner

But if you're not knowledgeable in God's Word, you have nothing to fight with, and the only way to arm yourself against evil and the adversary is to know His Word and use it! — K.J. Masters

In the best tradition of kidnapping, she appeared to be in some kind of run down warehouse. Sheesh, didn't the bad guys ever watch the movies? — Mina Carter

A belief in God's universal love to all his creatures, and that he will finally restore all of them that are miserable to happiness, is a polar truth ... It establishes the equality of [humanity] ... — Benjamin Rush

In all of your relationships, romantic or not, GIVE. Practice it. You get good at what you practice, and sometimes you even become great. — Ilya Atani

If you're not networking, you're not networking. — Denis Waitley