Standen Springs Quotes & Sayings

Believe it when you see it.
Believe it when a twelve-year-old rolls a grenade into the room. — Brian Turner

Language reveals the man. Speak that I may see thee. — Ben Johnson

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable. — Quincy Jones

Ever seen that bumper sticker "He who dies with the most toys wins"? Millions of people act as if it were true. The more accurate saying is "He who dies with the most toys still dies - and never takes his toys with him." When we die after devoting our lives to acquiring things, we don't win - we lose. We move into eternity, but our toys stay behind, filling junkyards. The bumper sticker couldn't be more wrong. — Randy Alcorn

When I was working on the book "The Life Of One Kid 7", I just felt the pain of the wound, I asked myself why it hurts.... one moment when my mother has went outside I just realise that she has turn on the fucking machine for making the weather inside hot. For god sake, this stop's thinking and makes depression! — Deyth Banger

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. — Walter Benjamin

Rule #1 in all bridal magazines. Give yourself a year to plan the
perfect wedding. — Jillian Dodd

Meanwhile everything matters - that concerns you. — Edith Wharton

In Jesus' Name, I pledge to rule my eternal kingdom(life)with eternal grace and eternal righteousness in Christ. — Cessza Gumede

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. — William Hazlitt

I realized that meals, too, are a spiritual service and that meat, bread, and wine are the raw materials from which spirit is formed. — Nikos Kazantzakis

As a boy, he'd always had some elaborate project that had nothing to do with school. On Summit Avenue, alone in his aerie, he drew the stately homes across the street and numbered the many windows and doors, compiling a detailed log of his neighbors' activities. In sixth grade, simultaneously, he kept a diary concerning the girls he liked and a ledger chronicling every penny he made and spent. These secret fascinations led nowhere in the end, were left mysteriously incomplete like the detective novel he patterned after Sherlock Holmes, to be replaced by his next obsession. At Princeton, when he was supposed to be cramming for exams, he wrote a musical. In the army it was a novel. Nothing had changed. He was still that boy, happiest pursuing some goose chase of his own making, and lost without one. — Stewart O'Nan

In the early days, I promoted the idea of spending time in libraries to gain facts that other investors didn't have. Not many people did that kind of research, so it worked. — Kenneth Fisher