Strandjanews Quotes & Sayings

No one knows it all and the one who thinks he does knows nothing. — Rudolph Mensah

We must start ... rebuilding our cities around energy efficiency and human needs, rather than around the car and wasted energy. — Jay Inslee

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today. — Jose Maria Aznar

She wasn't sure good intentions always paved the road to hell, but they for sure weren't the highest standard of medical care. She — Joe Hill

It is the vocation of the Christian in every generation to out-think all opposition. — Elton Trueblood

Others are affected by what I am, and say, and do. So that a single act of mine may spread and spread in widening circles, through a nation or humanity. Through my vice I intensify the taint of vice throughout the universe. Through my misery I make multitudes sad. On the other hand, every development of my virtue makes me an ampler blessing to my race. Every new truth that I gain makes me a brighter light to humanity. — William Ellery Channing

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find "tomorrow" on the calendars of fools. — Og Mandino

It's fair to say that mortality takes many manifestations, but so does the indomitable nature of the human spirit, and it does so in ways that are sometimes hardly noticeable. — James Lee Burke

God does not expect of us what we cannot do, but He does expect what we can do. — Kristiane Backer

There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children. — Mark Twain

Such are the limitations of the human mind, and so thoroughly engrossing are the cares of common life, that only the few among men can discern through the glitter and dazzle of present prosperity the dark outlines of approaching disasters, even though they may have come up to our very gates, and are already within striking distance. The yawning seam and corroded bolt conceal their defects from the mariner until the storm calls all hands to the pumps. Prophets, indeed, were abundant before the war; but who cares for prophets while their predictions remain unfulfilled, and the calamities of which they tell are masked behind a blinding blaze of national prosperity? — Frederick Douglass

OK cosmos, I could use some good news. Go on, surprise me. — William Meikle