Life Quotes

I nod and smile and smile and nod, and when she turns away, I form a gun with my hand, place it to my temple, and pull the trigger. This girl is starved for attention. It's amazing to me when people are totally unaware of how bad they are at socializ...

John Fowles

Ebenso hilft es der Seele nichts, wenn der Leib heilige Kleider anlegt, wie's die Priester und Geistlichen tun, auch nicht, wenn er sich in Kirchen und heiligen Stätten befindet; auch nicht, wenn er sich mit heiligen Dingen befaßt; auch nicht, wenn...

Martin Luther

Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination

Thomas Moore

You scoundrel, you have wronged me," hissed the philosopher, "May you live forever!

Ambrose Bierce

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

Christopher Hitchens

When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

Twyla Tharp

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

Ferdinand de Saussure

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

Agatha Christie

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Philip Pullman

You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

Philip Pullman

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

Martin Luther

For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is— limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death—He had the honesty and the courage to take His own medicine. Whatever game He is playing with His creation, He has kept His own rules and p...

Dorothy L. Sayers

Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the...

Martin Luther

I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. “God do this, God don’t do that.” I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.

Jean Plaidy

Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.

Ferdinand de Saussure

The visitor shrugged. "Like euthanasia? I'm sorry, Father, I feel that the laws of a society are what make something a crime or not a crime. I'm aware that you don't agree. And there can be bad laws, ill conceived, true. But in this case, I think we ...

Life

The first requirement of a sound body of law is, that it should correspond with the actual feelings and demands of the community, whether right or wrong.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Effective leaders are good spotters. They are on the lookout for potential leaders. They have the ability to look beyond other’s deficiencies to see their possibilities.

Gary Rohrmayer

Having a good definition of spiritual leadership is critical to development of leadership cultural throughout your church. You need to know what you are shooting for if you are going to hit the target.

Gary Rohrmayer

One of the landmines that church planters never dodge is the landmine of leadership development. I will never forget the day when I realized that there are no such things as 'ready-made leaders'.

Gary Rohrmayer

...the leader should reserve to himself the hiring, compensating, motivating, molding, assessing and firing of his chief lieutenants.

Steven B. Sample