Stawell Races Quotes & Sayings

Mankind are always happy for having happiness. So if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years from now by the memory of it. — Sydney Smith

When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken - you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years. — Tom Hanks

We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both — Paul Polman

We are running out of time for dealing with this — Eric Illsley

I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foot there and one foot in my Christianity, I would never grow. — Willie Aames

When we ignore the prostituted child, we actually lend our hand to their abuse. When we ignore the widow and the orphan in their distress, we actually add to their pain. When we ignore the slave who remains captive, it's us who is entrapping them. When we forget the refugee, it's actually us who is displacing them. When we choose not to help the poor and the needy, we actually rob them. Perhaps the only fair thing to say is that when we forsake the lives of others, we actually forsake our own. — Joel Houston

The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the last thing I did because I have the shortest attention span on earth. — Ryan Adams

Jean," I said, "Jesus suffered so much in order to save you, no suffering that we endure could ever match the intensity of His pain. I want to show you how much Jesus loves you. If you receive the Lord Jesus, I will stand before your friends and take the beating for you. Would that convince you that Jesus loved
you enough to die for you?"
His eyes welled over with tears, and right there on the beach promenade, jean knelt on the ground and asked the Lord Jesus to come into his heart. — Christopher Alam

I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out. — Mary Steenburgen

I love you. I want to be where you are. — S.C. Stephens

The purpose of life is to know, and to recreate, Who You Are. — Neale Donald Walsch

An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely. — Paulo Coelho

Under a socialist system every nation will be the supreme arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will be forced into no alliance against its will, but will have its independence guaranteed and its freedom respected by the enlightened self-interest of the socialist democracy of the world. — James Connolly

I believe that those who knew me [in my youth] took me for an eccentric. — Adolf Hitler