Quotes & Sayings About Trusted Advisors

For those who want to pray for me to "find God," please don't waste your prayers. If you really think God is listening to you, then please use those precious moments to ask God to care for the sick and dying, and leave me out of it. I'm happy without my faith and with living my life in the here and now. Besides, thousands before you have prayed for me to find God and it hasn't worked yet. Why would God value your request over theirs? — David G. McAfee

The fire first has to be laid before the match can be put to it. — P.K. Page

It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos. — John McClenahan

The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption. — Julian Jaynes

It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee during the forced removal of 1838-1839. Although we know about the terrible human suffering of our native people and the members of other tribes during the removal, we rarely hear of those black people who also suffered. — Wilma Mankiller

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth. — John McCarthy

I had some struggles to find my footing. I couldn't really find a place to appreciate me - I'm a little bit curvy for the dance world. — Sarah Hay

The exclusion of girls from education is an issue of justice. But it's also an issue of economics because it's holding families, communities, and nations back. The chiefs are often a bridge between the traditional and the modern world and are very powerful implements to change. — Ann Cotton

The silence was terrible then, as tense as a bridge about to break, a tower to fall; unedurable in its emotion, its truth bursting to be spoken. — John Fowles

Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor. — Terry Pratchett

Never write a book and let it sit on a shelf — Marvela Dawnay

Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Kids are trusting and wise and I cannot think of a less useful combination to be born with. The wisdom lets children know who they are. And then the trust lets everyone else take that knowledge away. — Sean Wilsey

We have a sense of continuity, which gives us what we call a sense of time. Through our ability to have remembrances of both what's coming and what's happening and what has happened, we begin to piece together a logical picture of the world. — Fred Alan Wolf