Tva Lake Quotes & Sayings

It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather. — Mahatma Gandhi

The fruitfulness of our life depends in large measure on our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility. All he asks of any act he performs is that it be his act. If it is performed by him, it must be good. All words spoken by him must be infallible. The car he has just bought is the best for its price, for no other reason than that he is the one who has bought it. He seeks no other fruit than this, and therefore he generally gets no other. — Thomas Merton

It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's about people, and about life. — LeRoy Neiman

The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing. — Ward Churchill

My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement. — Lisa Whelchel

Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers. — Robert A. Heinlein

She had a tattoo on the inside: the letters SPQR, a crossed sword and torch, and under that, four parallel lines like score marks. — Rick Riordan

A term came to her that they used on occasion at the shelter: the double bind ... They used the expression in much the same way that they would use a term like catch-22. — Chris Bohjalian

We're accustomed to the older generation looking down on the younger and telling them that they know nothing of the world. But things are rather out of kilter now, aren't they? It is your generation who understands the inhumanity of man, not ours. It's boys like you who have to live with what you have seen and what you have done. You've become the generation of response. While your elders can only look in your direction and wonder. — John Boyne