Thordal Necklace Quotes & Sayings

While picking the good, we have the best of intentions in mind; say, like using these traits in the best possible way. Over time and circumstances, some of these traits become redundant and over-used. Situations change while traits don't. This leads to the traits falling behind in the cycle of survival. — Patrick Grayson

Make them imagine repentance more like an appearance in court before a cranky old judge, less like a child knocking on his father's study door to have a chat. — Geoffrey Wood

This is going to be an old fashioned Baptist camp meeting with old fashioned singing, preaching and testifying. — Brandon Marshall

To pray is to descend with the mind into the heart, and there to stand before the face of the Lord, ever-present, all seeing, within you. — Theophan The Recluse

All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque. — Herman Melville

The execution of William Bonin was not the traditional gas chamber of the past. That has been ruled cruel and unusual. Instead, we have something that seems very kind and benign and technical; the injection of chemicals, Nazi-style. — Jerry Brown

All entrepreneurs make decisions. Some will go right, and some will not go that right. — Sunil Mittal

It's about isolation and loneliness, but it's also about friendship. Being exactly what the other person needs. — Stephanie Perkins

Leaders trust their guts. "Intuition" is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a "soft" notion. Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It's an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition. — Tom Peters

I'm not really much of a shopper. I have to say that I'd definitely prefer good sex. What makes good sex? Oh my god. I think you need to feel free and you have to really trust the other person. And you have to have that strange, mysterious chemical connection. — Kristin Davis

Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy mockery as genuine subversion and snarky mimesis as originality. It would be more accurate to describe our golden age of political comedy as the peak output of a lucrative corporate plantation whose chief export is a cheap and powerful opiate for progressive angst and rage. — Steve Almond