Stinted Velium Quotes & Sayings

Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication — Deborah Tannen

Too many people are going for self and not trying to help their communities. — Kevin Powell

I've watched congregations devote years and years to heated arguments about whether a female missionary should be allowed to share about her ministry on a Sunday morning, whether students older than ten should have female Sunday school teachers, whether girls should be encouraged to attend seminary, whether women should be permitted to collect the offering or write the church newsletter or make an announcement ... all while thirty thousand children die every day from preventable disease. If that's not an adventure in missing the point, I don't know what is. — Rachel Held Evans

The pressure performing is something you have to get used to, really really quick. — Adam Cole

I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S. — John Cameron

Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we're going to die? Each joy was clouded by the knowledge it would end. And so nature had implanted in us a desire for something unattainable? No. It couldn't be. It makes no sense. Every other striving implanted by nature had a corresponding object that wasn't a phantom. Why this exception? the detective reasoned. It was nature making hunger when there wasn't any food. We continue. We go on. Thus death proved life. — William Peter Blatty

Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings. — Jan Smuts

I felt a little uncomfortable because, when I went in to the military, I was the main male vocalist they had and when I came out they had like two or three vocalists. Otis came in when I was in the military, too. — William Bell

We need to remember and remind ourselves where we come from, what we are, our nothingness. — Pope Francis

Each child with special needs such as this does not come into the world in order to make our lives difficult and make us suffer. They each come into this world for a reason and have their secret inner voice. It remains to us to offer our love; to 'bear one another's burdens'; to experience a collective humbling - to realize, that is, that we are not as powerful and important as we think; and to try to lighten that person's burden and understand their language. These children are better at speaking the language of God. — Metropolitan Nikolaos Of Mesogaia

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits. — Jonathan Swift

To ADMOVE (ADMO'VE) v.a.[admoveo, Lat.]To bring one thing to another. If, unto the powder of loadstone or iron, we admove the northpole of the loadstone, the powders, or small divisions, will erect and conform themselves thereto.Brown'sVulgar Errours,b. ii. — Samuel Johnson

Don't think about Laika in orbit. Don't think about cringe and catastrophe. — Ada Limon

This one time I stayed up way past my bedtime ... man that was scary. — Johnny Christ