Sledging Switzerland Quotes & Sayings

By placing all our focus on receiving God's blessings and gifts, we behave just like the arrogant young man in the story [Parable of the Prodigal Son] - we value what God can do for us but not God himself. We seek a relationship with God as a utilitarian means to an end. And although we may praise him with our words, our hearts are set on what we hope to get from him. We become jerks cloaked in religiosity. — Skye Jethani

I think we all are kind of colored by whatever we were raised with or what we came up believing in. — John Wells

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Winners win not because they're allowed to, but because they decide to. — Ralph Marston

If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains. — Diana Ross

This is our country. He was rejecting Adrian's offer of help. It was this that had stung so much, the idea he was neither wanted nor needed. It had simply never occurred to him.
Attila. The man is right, of course. People here don't need therapy so much as hope. But the hope has to be real- Attila's warning to Adrian. I fall down, I get up. Westerners Adrian has met despise the fatalism. But perhaps it is the way people have found to survive. — Aminatta Forna

O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If to live is to die, then to die is to live on. — Palle Oswald

Well, a funny thing, there are three that I like all for the same reason, golf, fishing, and shooting, and I do because first, they take you into the fields. There is mild exercise, the kind that an older individual probably should have. And on top of it, it induces you to take at any one time 2 or 3 hours, if you can, where you are thinking of the bird or that ball or the wily trout. Now, to my mind it is a very healthful, beneficial kind of thing, and I do it whenever I get a chance, as you well know. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately
a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles, windows, purses, saucers all glaring at us an we in each other's arm oblivious. I sit down beside her and she talks
a flood of talk. Wild consumptive notes of hysteria, perversion, leprosy. I hear not a word because she is beautiful and I love her and now I am happy and willing to die. — Henry Miller

I'd like to play for Newcastle United before I retire. The club is in my blood. — Alan Shearer

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible. — Fred Wilson

The technology distracted us from our lack of answers to anything that mattered. It gave us a lesser form of magic to wield to appease us. — Kitty Thomas

I'm really not good with impulse control. — Richelle Mead