Uss Monitor Quotes & Sayings

Politics is the art of persuasion. Good ideas die because due to a lack of charisma or character. — A.E. Samaan

I could feel my moral compass as a soldier, in danger of - I could feel the squeeze, the pressure of frustration and anger and fear combining on me ... I felt the danger; I felt the squeeze of it. — Tim O'Brien

She walked fast, to keep ahead of her fear, and it felt as though Syrio Forel walked beside her, and Yoren, and Jaqen H'ghar, and Jon Snow. — George R R Martin

This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious. — Dorothee Solle

I'm pretty happy with who I am. I like myself and what I'm doing. I don't need to be the world's greatest director or the most famous
or the richest. I don't need to make a whole lot of great films. I can do my job and I can do it pretty well. This is the realization I've come to, later in life. It's called growing up. — John Carpenter

But an essentially mechanical world would be an essentially meaningless world! Suppose that one assessed the value of a piece of music according to how much of it could be counted, calculated, put into formulas; how absurd such a 'scientific' assessment of music would be! What would one have comprehended, understood, known about it? Nothing, absolutely nothing of what is really 'music' in it! — Friedrich Nietzsche

It's real hard to come up with something unique. We've seen just about everything over the last 10 years. — Ricky Davis

When I am dead, even then,
I will still love you, I will wait in these poems,
When I am dead, even then
I am still listening to you. — Muriel Rukeyser

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. — William Shenstone

Life as a Christ follower will always be a learning process of depending less on our own strength and more on God's power. — Lysa TerKeurst

As teenagers, a lot of us just did not want much to do with Arabic culture - we looked to the West. — Rabih Alameddine

There is a faith that is faith; there is a faith that can do all things; there is a faith that moves mountains, whatever those mountains may be; there is a faith that rises above every obstacle in the world and reaches the greatest heights that the mind of man may have in view; and it is this faith that is the hidden secret. — Christian D. Larson