Shukriya Allah Quotes & Sayings

I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition. — Angela Merkel

I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon. — Philip Pullman

But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear. — William Cowper

We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation. — Terence McKenna

I guess mercy is a muscle like any other. You got to exercise it, or it just cramp right up. — Esi Edugyan

I've always been happy just to be working. It doesn't really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name or my picture, or whatever. — Michael Shannon

Forget about writing to Penthouse.
This one was going to be a story for their grandkids. — Suzanne Brockmann

Magic and faith have one thing in common: they both deal with the supernatural. But everything else is different, for magic is an impersonal manipulation and control, a way of getting, while faith is a personal response to God, inviting him to do what he will in us, an offering of obedience to walk where he leads. We come to God not to get our way but to get his; not to acquire a means of impressing our friends with our access to power but to let him make an eternal impression on us with his salvation. — Eugene H. Peterson

We have churches filled with people who can win Bible trivia contests but who don't know Him. I am afraid that some of us have been sidetracked or entangled by everything from prosperity to poverty, and we've become such an ingrown society of the self-righteous that our desires and our wants and those — Tommy Tenney

What is the biggest obstacle to creativity? Attachment to outcome. As soon as you become attached to a specific outcome, you feel compelled to control and manipulate what you're doing and in the process you shut yourself off to other possibilities. Creativity is not just about succeeding. It's about experimenting and discovering. — Gordon MacKenzie

The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body - has a spirit - is organic - and fluid to the influence of its spirit - and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me — Henry David Thoreau

The most successful politicians are the ones who embrace their best traits while turning their liabilities into loveable attributes. And yet, many a candidate tries to run as something they aren't simply because the strategy dictates it. — Chuck Todd

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. — Francois Fenelon