Vornherein Quotes & Sayings

To prevent becoming overwhelmed by the world around us, we must, as the ancients practiced, learn how to limit our passions and their control over our lives. It takes skill and discipline to bat away the pests of bad perceptions, to separate reliable signals from deceptive ones, to filter out prejudice, expectation, and fear. But it's worth it, for what's left is truth. While others are excited or afraid, we will remain calm and imperturbable. We will see things simply and straightforwardly, as they truly are - neither good nor bad. — Ryan Holiday

God created the possibility of evil; people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even an all-powerful God could not have created a world in which people had genuine freedom and yet there was no potentiality for sin, because our freedom includes the possibility of sin within its own meaning. — Peter Kreeft

Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism. — Apollonius Of Tyana

Gandhi sacrificed India for his own fame and recognition. Without Gandhi, there would have been a different India; a very masculine one. — M.F. Moonzajer

When life's got you down, keep your head up ... you can't see the ground anyway — Nicole Rae

What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God. — Ernesto Cardenal

If we want to see real change in our world, it begins with us all on an individual basis. — Dionna L. Hayden

I read to my children, and now they love to read. I encourage parents to carve out just 20 minutes a day. It helps you learn more about them, and really opens the door for you to speak into their life! — Victoria Osteen

Everything that has ever lived, plant or animal, dates its beginning from the same primordial twitch. At some point in an unimaginably distant past, some little bag of chemicals fidgeted to life. It absorbed some nutrients, gently pulsed, had a brief existence. This much may have happened many times before. But this ancestral packet did something additional and extraordinary. It cleaved itself and produced an heir. A tiny bundle of genetic material passed from one living entity to another, and has never stopped moving since. It was the moment of creation for us all. — Bill Bryson

Right about when I turned 13, I realized that women could be jockeys, from my travels to the racetrack with my dad. — Chantal Sutherland

I particularly don't want to play unmotivated behavior. — Michael Zaslow

Your actions become your habits. Don't let yourself make a pattern of slipups or they'll become habits! — Denise Austin

A lot of times you'll hear horror stories about actors being incredibly selfish and only wanting themselves to shine, but for me, it's not about just one person. It's about the whole team. That's the way I look at acting. That's the way I look at everything I do. — Mekhi Phifer