Strokin By Clarence Quotes & Sayings

Every profession has its traditions and its traditionalists. But the traditionalists in the pulpit are much more certain than the others that the Lord is on their side. — Reinhold Niebuhr

When you feel like you can't keep going, turn your heart to Allah and say this: I can't. But You can. I'm weak. But You're strong. Take me in, not because of me
but because of You. Your mercy is stronger than my weakness. Your perfection is greater than my humanness. I beseech You to replace what's lost, mend what's broken, and allow my hope in You to kill my despair. — Yasmin Mogahed

Ricardo Semler wrote a most interesting book about an including business culture (1995). He describes a Brazilian company that manufactured customized pumps. — Charles J. Pellerin

When he paraded his possessions hereafter, they would not consider the two together. They'd look with envy at the things and pity the man that owned them. — Zora Neale Hurston

It wasn't exactly like talking, but it went something like this: Could you give us a ride north, Percy asked, like as close to Portland as possible?
Eat seals, the whale responded. Are you seals?
No, Percy admitted. I've got a man satchel full of macrobiotic beef jerky, though.
The whale shuddered. Promise not to feed me this, and I will take you north.
Deal. — Rick Riordan

Even the acceptance of personal responsibility may not overcome the temptation to believe that now is not the time to repent. 'Now' can seem so difficult, and 'later' appear so much easier. The truth is that today is always a better day to repent than any tomorrow. — Henry B. Eyring

There was something prehistoric about it, like a beast of a lost world — Gill Lewis

Golfers are the greatest worriers in the world of sport. — Billy Casper

I stroke it to the East, and I stroke it to the West, and I stroke it to the woman that I love best. I be strokin'. — Clarence Carter

I'm a person who saves things. I'll hold on forever. * — Jenny Han

All the best movies are the ones that are cut from a more middle ground. — Kristen Schaal

What is it? Tens, I can see the stick up your arse from here. I'm dying remember? Dying people don't have time for silly moods — Amber Kizer

Which do you think is more valuable to humanity?
a. Finding ways to tell humans that they have free will despite the incontrovertible fact that their actions are completely dictated by the laws of physics as instantiated in our bodies, brains and environments? That is, engaging in the honored philosophical practice of showing that our notion of "free will" can be compatible with determinism?
or
b. Telling people, based on our scientific knowledge of physics, neurology, and behavior, that our actions are predetermined rather than dictated by some ghost in our brains, and then sussing out the consequences of that conclusion and applying them to society?
Of course my answer is b). — Jerry A. Coyne

This one time I made love on the back seat of a car and the police came and shined his light on me, and I said I'm strokin'. That's what I'm doing, I be strokin'. — Clarence Carter

There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life. — Eckhart Tolle