Tony Fingleton Quotes & Sayings

The original route, whether called U. S. 40 or something else, will furnish the main-traveled road until someone disproves the geometrical proposition that a straight line is the shortest distance between points. — George R. Stewart

I also am not particularly risk-averse - I don't mind jumping off a cliff if I trust the people who've told me they'll catch me at the bottom. — Jeff VanderMeer

To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach. — Frank McKinney

Principle' [Established Truth] means everywhere applicable; when there is nothing else, it is called Principle. — Dada Bhagwan

Despite their inglorious end, the legions remain to this day, thousands of years after their creation, the most pre-eminent example of how detailed organization, tight discipline, and inspiring leadership can take a group of individuals and turn them into a winning team. — Stephen Dando-Collins

There is no doubt in my mind that Masonry is the cornerstone of America. — Dave Thomas

Somehow we American pastors, without really noticing what was happening, got our vocations redefined in the terms of American careerism. We quit thinking of the parish as a location for pastoral spirituality and started thinking of it as an opportunity for advancement. Tarshish, not Nineveh, was the destination. The moment we did that, we started thinking wrongly, for the vocation of pastor has to do with living out the implications of the word of God in community, not sailing off into the exotic seas of religion in search of fame and fortune. — Eugene H. Peterson

Six people, but a thousand ways this insane plan could go wrong. — Leigh Bardugo

A union of the States is a union of the men composing them, from whence a national character result to the whole, — Rufus King

Tell you what: you can be Glammera the vampire hunter. I'll stick with being manly and heavily armed. — Rachel Caine

Daniel understood the complaint. For Daniel, too, had once designed a building, and savored the thrill of seeing it built, only to endure the long indignity of watching the owner clutter it up with knick-knacks and furniture. — Neal Stephenson