Seminar Ending Quotes & Sayings

The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on. — William Faulkner

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better. — Hannah More

Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues. Other than beginning and ending with prayer, mentioning Christ, and sprinkling in some Bible verses, there's no fundamental difference. They reinforce people's materialist attitudes and lifestyles. They suggest a variety of profitable plans in which people can spend or stockpile the bulk of their resources. In short, to borrow a term from Jesus, some Christian financial experts are helping people to be the most successful 'rich fools' they can be. — Randy Alcorn

I don't live my life through my kids, nor do I expect them to live theirs through mine. But of course, they're everything. — Neneh Cherry

Should I marry W.? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name. — Woody Allen

When the woman took the earbud, he didn't ask another question. She was a woman on a mission as she placed the tiny device in her ear and said, This is Special Agent Abby Cameron. Let me talk to Macey McHenry. — Ally Carter

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way. — Henry Ward Beecher

Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too. — Bum Phillips

I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology. — Major Owens

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't. — Elizabeth Bowen

Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you. — Ann Brashares

Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech. — Paul Robeson

Murdered? Somebody murdered him?" Palmer was agog. A thin, soft man with a pitted nose and a bald, bumpy egg-shaped head dotted with dime-sized freckles, he was wearing jeans and a T-shirt that said, "NSA, Our Customer Service Pledge: You Talk, We Listen. — John Sandford

Galen is the shark. The shark is Galen. What I mean is, there is no shark. There's only Galen. — Anna Banks