Simandi Quotes & Sayings

We cannot learn patience by reading a book or hearing a lecture. The only way we can learn patience is by going through the trials that God assigns to us. The trials of life are the tools God uses to mature us, to build our faith, and to get us to trust the Spirit and not the flesh. — Warren W. Wiersbe

Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some. — Tom Wicker

When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ardent atheist. — Arthur Hertzberg

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants. — John Boyd Orr

The medics generally see the worst of the worst. They see everything. They're working on their friends, and they're working on their enemy. The person that was just firing at them, trying to kill them, five minutes ago, if an Army medic stumbles upon him and he's still alive, he just goes to save his life. — Brendan Fehr

What you see is what you see — Frank Stella

I'm not sure what they mean by mispent youth, I used mine to get a nice BLT a few years ago. — Neil Leckman

After the 1984 Summer Olympics, Reagan wanted to add the U.S. volleyball team to his Cabinet. He figured if they can't shove his programs down Congress' throat, nobody can. — Bob Hope

Americans get it. They're ready for some opportunities to have greener communities, to have cleaner communities, and to have transportation options that perhaps they haven't had in the past. — Greg Abbott

The bacillus of efficiency has also attacked football, and some dare to ask what's the point in playing well. I feel tempted to tell about the time they dared to ask Borges what is poetry for, to which he answered: 'What is a sunrise for? What are caresses for? What is the smell of coffee for?' — Jorge Valdano

Many of the engineers I interviewed worked on reverse-engineering technology. It's a hallmark of Area 51. — Annie Jacobsen

My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God who's not good. — Rob Bell

It did not occur to me at the time that her radiance had a spiritual dimension, owing nothing to the values of the temporal world. — Jennifer Worth

Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life. — Roger Sessions