Uell Brenner Quotes & Sayings

to avoid dullness may help to filter out the nonessential.) — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The power of faith overpowers fear. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't think telling the truth ever gets anyone in trouble in the long run. Maybe the day after, but not in the long run. — Steve Spurrier

The tree in the field is to be treated with respect. It is not to be romanticized as the old lady romanticizes her cat (that is, she reads human reactions into it) ... But while we should not romanticize the tree, we must realize that God made it and it deserves respect because he made it as a tree. Christians who do not believe in the complete evolutionary scale have reason to respect nature as the total evolutionist never can, because we believe that God made these things specifically in their own areas. So if we are going to argue against evolutionists intellectually, we should show the results of our beliefs in our attitudes. The Christian is a man who has a reason for dealing with each created thing on a high level of respect. — Francis A. Schaeffer

I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

By the time you kill and mount what you catch, it has lost that very thing that made it worth having. I knew this only as a vague sense of disappointment at age 10; not until later did I recognize it as a metaphor for much of life. — Anna Quindlen

Everything I commission - whether it is for me or for a client's home or for a hotel or office - is absolutely unique to that job. I have everything made, or I find vintage and antique pieces at markets and auctions. — Kelly Wearstler