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Ouma Nella’s quotes p 144 -146 “Man, if you don’t know where you going, any road will bring you there.” “It don’t matter how far a river run. It never forget where it come from. That is all that is important.” “No matter if it’s wet...

Philida

Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in ten enjoyed the place and said he'd come again, that was enough. If one out of ten was a repeat customer, then the business would survive. To put it anot...

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

She asked another question: "What does it matter if the rhinos die out? Is it really important that they are saved?" This would normally have riled me... but I had comes to think of her as Dr. Spock form Star Trek - an emotionless, purely logical cre...

Peter Allison

Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in other things, like my music, stories and my journey. The last years I have more or less constantly been on my way, on the road, always leaving and n...

Charlotte Eriksson

If more people understood how nice it is to have a sense of home that extends past our locked doors, past our neighbors' padlocks, to the local food co-op and library, the sidewalks busted up by old trees - if we all held home with longer arms - we'd...

Dee Williams

This time Elizabeth Ann didn't answer, because she herself didn't know what the matter was. But I do, and I'll tell you. The matter was that never before had she known what she was doing in school. She had always thought she was there to pass from on...

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Tex: Boy oh boy, you picked a bad time to fly, Billy. They're guerrillas all over the place blowing up planes and all. They hit four planes in four days. But I guess you young people don't read the news anymore. That, and with our people back home ki...

Midnight Express

Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: It wasn't just the baby that died that day. Something inside Sick Boy was lost and never returned. It seemed that he had no theory with which to explain a moment like this... nor did I. Our only response was to keep on going a...

Trainspotting

Suppose a top politician, entertainment figure, or sports star said it didn't really matter who shot Lincoln or why, who attacked Pearl Harbor, the Alamo or the USS Liberty. Imagine the derision. Imagine the ridicule. Imagine the loss in credibility ...

Life

The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ

The Cost of Discipleship

Minutes turn into hours, and lifetimes into moments. Universes are created and destroyed with nary a pop. What was saved, no longer ex- ists. What was lost, no longer matters.

Crossing In Time: The 1st Disaster

Why not risk your life, if you don't want to live anyway? Why not risk your life if you'll never be happy no matter what you do?

City of Glass

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

Change of Heart

It’s more like he was an ant in the land of elephants. Nobody would notice his presence, no matter how much noise he might make.

Culpa Innata

But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood.

Compulsion

God's image…is found not best in individual humans, but in humans as they relate to each other.

The Creed: What Christians Believe and Why it Matters

Sports can unite worlds, tear down walls and transcend race, the past, and all probability. Unlike life, sport matters.

Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew

Part of the reason why we feel these transitions so keenly is that we know that our lives matter.

Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential

Because consciousness has no mass and extension, no parts or physical properties, it is Nothing, which on the other hand, can generate the matter and energy of the entire universe.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

I thought to myself, 'No matter what happens from now on, even if my heart ends up in pieces, this makes it all worth it, this moment.

The Carrier