Unscarred By Trials Quotes & Sayings

'Star Wars' came out when I was seven. It was so different from anything else, like peeking into the land of Oz. All you wanted to do was see it again and go back and see more of it. That feeling is not easy to reproduce. — Damian Loeb

You cannot hate a people and reach a people at the same time. — Ed Stetzer

Obedience sums up our entire duty. — Hosea Ballou

Now we're going to transition into the pigeon pose," the female instructor said serenely. "I don't know what that is!" Lacey yelled at the TV. "Why don't you ever explain it to us?" With that, yoga was over. — Elle Kennedy

You've got to grow up sometime. — Winona Ryder

I asked the Mesquite coach who he thought the best team in Mesquite is. He said they were about even. — James Wright

To recognize untruth as a condition of life
that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked. — Lewis Black

Reason and justice grip the remotest and the loneliest star. Look at those stars. Don't they look as if they were single diamonds and sapphires? Well, you can imagine any mad botany or geology you please. Think of forests of adamant with leaves of brilliants. Think the moon is a blue moon, a single elephantine sapphire. But don't fancy that all that frantic astronomy would make the smallest difference to the reason and justice of conduct. On plains of opal, under cliffs cut out of pearl, you would still find a notice-board, Thou shalt not steal. — G.K. Chesterton

The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn't have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn't have it, either. Government office should be received like a child's Christmas present, with surprise and delight. Instead it is usually received like a diploma, an anticlimax that never seems worth the struggle to earn it. — Orson Scott Card

[Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science - where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not stretched or cut exactly to fit Revealed Religion. — Andrew Dickson White

Archmaester Rigney once wrote that history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. — George R R Martin

Scuba diving, from the beginning, had an air of dangerous allure. Every landlocked schoolboy knew of its intriguing hazards: the bends, which caused a diver's veins to fizz with carbonated blood until he died a ghastly, percolating death; and rapture of the deep, which took away his reason, filled his heart with false contentment, and drew him down into the ocean gloom. — Stephen Harrigan

Whoever believes physical size and tests of speed or strength have anything to do with a soccer player's prowess is sorely mistaken. Just as mistaken as those who believe that IQ tests have anything to do with talent or that there is a relationship between penis size and sexual pleasure. Good soccer players need not to be titans sculpted by Michelangelo. In soccer, ability is much more important than shape, and in many cases skill is the art of turning limitations into virtues. — Eduardo Galeano

We need to be humble in the face of uncertainty — Paul DePodesta