Stinton V Quotes & Sayings

Basketball was always a game to me. One of the greatest things in life for me was to be able to play what I loved dearly and get paid for it. So it was always a game to me and that's how I perceived everything. — Larry Bird

Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other for entertaining small-talk, after the races, the theater, songs, food, and sex: for there are people who count chatter on theology and clever deployment of arguments as one of their amusements. — Gregory Of Nazianzus

I don't think there's ever been a friendly divorce. — Merle Haggard

Jesus envisions that discovering God's kingdom will inspire two things: exhilarating joy, and huge change in your life. — Rick Stinton

The general who does not advance to seek glory, or does not withdraw to avoid punishment, but cares for only the people's security and promotes the people's interests, is the nation's treasure. — Sun Tzu

Moments pass, lots and lots of them, with us holding on, it feels like for dear life, or maybe holding on to dear life. — Jandy Nelson

Fall seven times. Get up eight. — Nina Lane

Nothing in the universe can be the same if somewhere, we do not know where, a sheep that we never saw has - yes or no? - eaten a rose ...
Look up at the sky. Ask yourselves: is it yes or no? Has the sheep eaten the flower? And you will see how everything changes ...
And no grown-up will ever understand that this is a matter of so much importance! — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The languid transition from soft, pink-orange sunlight to deep blue darkness clashed with the clusterfuck that was my emotions. — Dan Elconin

Attaching love to sex is one of the most bizarre ideas the Creator ever had. — Anonymous

They were in love with him because he was a prince and a faerie and magical and you were supposed to love princes and faeries and magic people. They loved him the way they'd loved Beast the first time he swept Belle around the dance floor in her yellow dress. They loved him as they loved the Eleventh Doctor with his bow tie and his flippy hair and the Tenth Doctor with his mad laugh. They loved him as they loved lead singers of bands and actors in movies, loved him in such a way that their shared love brought them closer together. — Holly Black

I think that it is high time that we remembered that we have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution. I think that it is high time that we remembered that the Constitution, as amended, speaks not only of the freedom of speech but also of trial by jury instead of trial by accusation. — Margaret Chase Smith

The will is one of the chief organs of belief, not because it creates belief, but because things are true or false according to the aspect by which we judge them. When the will likes one aspect more than another, it deflects the mind from considering the qualities of the one it does not care to see. Thus the mind, keeping in step with the will, remains looking at the aspect preferred by the will and so judges by what it sees there. — Blaise Pascal

I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a reader. — Byron Katie