Wachsenden Quotes & Sayings

If I have any insight at all to contribute it is this: find out what you are really good at and stick to it. — Stephen Jay Gould

We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being. — G.K. Chesterton

Someone gave me A Gift
without it was Given — Petra Hermans

It's time to put country ahead of party. It's time to put the next generation ahead of the next election. — Barack Obama

No one but me can save myself though its too late, death greets me warm, now i will just say goodbye. — James Hetfield

My brethren, let me say, be like Christ at all times. Imitate him in "public." Most of us live in some sort of public capacity-many of us are called to work before our fellow-men every day. We are watched; our words are caught; our lives are examined-taken to pieces. The eagle-eyed, argus-eyed world observes everything we do, and sharp critics are upon us. Let us live the life of Christ in public. Let us take care that we exhibit our Master, and not ourselves-so that we can say, "It is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me." — Charles Spurgeon

Never without a shilling in my purse. — Horace

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. — Bill Watterson

People and organizations other than doctors increasingly are assuming power to decide which medications to prescribe or procedures to undertake. More and more, decisions about personal healthcare are no longer made by the treating physicians in consultation with their patients, and based on the doctors' expertise. — Bob Barr

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance. — Abigail Adams

Remember, morality is God's standard, not humankind's standard. So it is important that we understand the process that God used to bring us his wisdom, truth and historical perspective. — Reid A. Ashbaucher

The sight of home looks best after you've traveled hundreds of miles to get away from it. — Sam Ewing

You know what I mean. Is it true the folk hereabouts" - he pointed to the land ahead - "are cripples? Missing half their hindquarters?"
"The fauns? Cripples?" I laughed. "By the gods who made them, no! — Harry Turtledove

People don't get cancer or diabetes or have a baby with Down syndrome as any kind of punishment. People who believe that are very 'limited', which is polite way to say they're stupid. — Nancy Freund