Snrna Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts. — Padgett Powell

He himself, facing a firing squad, would not understand too well the concatenation of the series of subtle but irrevocable accidents that bought him to that point. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view. — Robert Frost

THE LAST WORDS OF MAX VANDENBURG: You've done enough. — Markus Zusak

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone. — William Shakespeare

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue. — Theodore Parker

Each of us has a creation tale - how we came into this world. And I'll add this: each of us has an uncreation tale - how our lives came apart. That which undoes us. Sooner or later, it will claim you. Mark you. More than your creation. — Michael Hainey

Many find their heart when they have lost their head. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Today's man should do more than just talk; he should act. He should do more than just promise; he should deliver. — Steve Maraboli

The great historian of religion Martin Marty once said every religion serves two functions: First, it is a message of personal salvation telling is how to get right with God; and second, it is a lens for interpreting the world.
Historically, evangelicals have been good at the first functions- at "saving souls". But they have not been nearly so good at helping people to interpret the world around them- at providing a set of interrelated concepts that function as a lens to give a biblical view of areas like science, politics, economics, or bioethics.
As Marty puts it, evangelicals have typically "accentuated personal piety and individual salvation, leaving men to their own devices to interpret the world around them. — Nancy Pearcey

Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it. — Kailash Kher

Valour that parlies is neare yeelding.
[Valor that parleys is near yielding.] — George Herbert

Love betters what is best — William Wordsworth

Every thoughtful, well-meaning and conscientious human being
should assume in time of peace,
the solemn and unconditional obligation
not to participate in any war, for any reason
or to lend support of any kind, whether direct or indirect. — Albert Einstein

We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or the body of a man, a glad or sorrowful expression, the infinite seas, the wild rocks, the melancholy language of the black trees in the snow, the wild strength of spring flowers and the heavy lethargy of a hot summer day when Pan, our old friend, sleeps and the ghosts of midday whisper. This alone is enough to make us forget the grief of the world, or to give it form. — Max Beckmann