Wigant Claytor Quotes & Sayings

One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one. — Daniel Goldstein

It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else. — Michael Frayn

The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living. — Tullian Tchividjian

One interesting indication of Capablanca's greatness is that to non-chess players his name was better known than the names of all other chess masters together! This was due partly to his engaging personality and distinguished appearance: he was one of those exceptional people who at once stand out in a crowd. — Fred Reinfeld

Slave. Minion. Fiend. The others who have come before me have been called such things, but I prefer to think of myself as a disciple; a devout follower of my voluptuous mistress. — Charlotte Featherstone

Okay." He hesitated. One word. So far, not so good. — James Dashner

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her. — Jack Adams

In the kitchen, the egg is ultimately neither ingredient nor finished dish but rather a singularity with a thousand ends. — Michael Ruhlman

I want my own will, and I want
simply to be with my will,
as it goes toward action.
And in the silent, sometimes hardly moving times,
when something is coming near,
I want to be with those who know
secret things or else alone ...
I want to unfold.
I don't want to be folded anywhere,
because where I am folded,
there I am a lie. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness. — Caroline Myss

Passion is not a quality that is foreign to you. It is not a characteristic that some people are born with and some must do without. To be passionate is as natural to you as breathing, as natural as being alive. It is the source of who you are. — Barbara De Angelis

Theology must have the character of a living procession. — Karl Barth

On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.' — Caroline Knapp