Sycophancy In A Sentence Quotes & Sayings

Taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting. — Amy Poehler

Many people thought that, given my knowledge of the egg, I should analyse embryonic mutants. — John Sulston

Nevertheless, despite all superficial continuity, a remarkable change has come about within the last seventy-five years. The change is nothing less than the substitution of paganism for Christianity as the dominant view of life. Seventy-five years ago, Western civilization, despite inconsistencies, was still predominantly Christian; today it is predominantly pagan. (1923) — J. Gresham Machen

The church was an international institution long before globalization. — Shane Claiborne

In all "benedictions", be they expressing plea or thanksgiving, we affirm that God is the "source" of every bounty we enjoy and of every favour we seek. — Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

It Takes A Lifetime To Learn How To Die — Terry Pratchett

Things I Want Decided

Which shouldn't exist
in this world,
the one who forgets
or the one
who is forgotten?

Which is better,
to love
one who has died
or not to see
each other when you're alive?

Which is better,
the distant lover
you long for
or the one you see daily
without desire?

Which is the least unreliable
among fickle things -
the swift rapids,
a flowing river,
or this human world? — Izumi Shikibu

Only by being prepared for your death can you ever truly live. — Christopher Moore

A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on. — Richard Branson

It's very challenging. The most important thing you need as a sportsman is to be clear on what you're actually doing. — Brett Lee

tonight's festivities, they'd taken over Faraday's Tennis Club, a place where you didn't usually get — A.J. Carella

he gave way to a pleasant lassitude — Franz Kafka

All the songs were written on guitar and then put into the computer, where I played around with different sounds I was hearing and what was available in the software. — Jamie Woon