Spirtiuality Quotes & Sayings

When Xi Jinping came to power, there were a series of hints that market-based capitalism would be allowed to move forward under his leadership. At the first real threat, they've fallen over themselves to impose government control. — Roger Altman

Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story. — Patrick Ness

Your life is a result of life's principles that you either observed or violated. — Sunday Adelaja

Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity. — Sam Harris

It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come! — Robin Roberts

When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister. — Jeffrey Archer

The twelfth-century poet Abraham ibn Ezra, whom you encountered in high school as Browning's Rabbi ben Ezra (may his tribe increase), limpidly described the shlimazl's lot when he wrote: If I sold lamps, The sun, In spite, Would shine at night. — Leo Rosten

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself. — Edmund Hillary

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes. — Pauline Kael

Kill your appetite and save for the future! — Israelmore Ayivor

Nothing is thought rare Which is not new and follow'd, yet we know That what was worne some twenty yeare agoe, Comes into grace againe. — Dario Fo

The boys on the island vary, of course, in numbers, according as they get killed and so on; and when they seem to be growing up, which is against the rules, Peter thins them out; but at this time there were six of them, counting the twins as two. Let us pretend to lie here among the sugar-cane and watch them as they steal by in single file, each with his hand on his dagger. — J.M. Barrie

Our world is ... longing to see people whose God is big and holy and frightening and gentle and tender ... and ours; a God whose love frightens us into His strong and powerful arms where He longs to whisper those terrifying words, 'I love you.' — Mike Yaconelli

Science does nothing for man spiritually, and organized religion demands blind faith in illogical liturgy that was never meant to be taken literally! — Fred Van Lente

For it is a curious fact that though human beings have such imperfect means of communication, that they can only say 'good to eat' when they mean 'beautiful' and the other way about, they will yet endure ridicule and misunderstanding rather than keep any experience to themselves. — Virginia Woolf

But on the question of whether the robots will eventually take over, he {Rodney A. Brooks} says that this will probably not happen, for a variety of reasons. First, no one is going to accidentally build a robot that wants to rule the world. He says that creating a robot that can suddenly take over is like someone accidentally building a 747 jetliner. Plus, there will be plenty of time to stop this from happening. Before someone builds a "super-bad robot," someone has to build a "mildly bad robot," and before that a "not-so-bad robot. — Michio Kaku