Struble Trail Quotes & Sayings

Faith, then, generically, is confidence in a personal being. Specifically, religious faith is confidence in God, in every respect and office in which He reveals Himself. As that love of which God is the object is religious love, so that confidence in Him as a Father, a Moral Governor, a Redeemer, a Sanctifier, in all the modes of His manifestation, by which we believe whatever He says because He says it, and commit ourselves and all our interests cheerfully and entirely into His hands, is religious faith. — Mark Hopkins

It's not easy is it? Being a great man's son. You'd thought that would come with all kinds of advantages - with borrowed admiration, and respect. But it's only as easy as it is for the seeds of a great tree, trying to grow in its choking shadow. Not many make it to the sunlight for themselves. — Joe Abercrombie

For the evaders, avoiders, dodgers, and side-steppers.

You probably have a good reason for hiding.

May you work through it and find your inner lion. — Jenn Bennett

The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen. — Nathan Myhrvold

Steal Captain Black's car," said Yossarian. "That's what I always do." "We can't steal anybody's car. Since you began stealing the nearest car every time you wanted one, nobody leaves the ignition on. — Joseph Heller

Jessie rummaged through her purse for the necessary equipment. If there were one thing, Baley had once said solemnly, that had resisted mechanical improvement since medieval times, it was a woman's purse. — Isaac Asimov

I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. — Mark Leyner

If I can't be me and be accepted and loved for that, then what's the point? — Bronagh Gallagher

I wish I had more guts when I was younger because then I would've said things to people's faces instead of just running away all the time. — Mika.

The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we're going to die, I suppose. — Tom Brokaw

Anything can happen in this world, for an ordinary girl — Miley Cyrus

A meeting is that measure whereby a large number of people gather and some say things that they don't think and others think things that they don't say. — Vladimir Voinovich

But the point is, when the writer turns to address the reader, he or she must not only speak to me - naively dazzled and wholly enchanted by the complexities of the trickery, and thus all but incapable of any criticism, so that, indeed, he can claim, if he likes, priestly contact with the greater powers that, hurled at him by the muse, travel the parsecs from the Universe's furthest shoals, cleaving stars on the way, to shatter the specific moment and sizzle his brains in their pan, rattle his teeth in their sockets, make his muscles howl against his bones, and to galvanize his pen so the ink bubbles and blisters on the nib (nor would I hear her claim to such as other than a metaphor for the most profound truths of skill, craft, or mathematical and historical conjuration) - but she or he must also speak to my student, for whom it was an okay story, with just so much description. — Samuel R. Delany