"Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties" - Doug Larson
"'Can't couldn't do anything." -Todd Humphrey (to the best of my knowledge!)
"Freedom is not a license for chaos." - The Dot And The Line
"Your mind must control your feelings or else your feelings will manipulate your mind." - Alastair Begg
"The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." - Margaret Thatcher
"Nothing counts before the 'but'." - ?
"There but for the grace of God go I." - John Bradford
“While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.” - Douglas Horton
"Any fool can count all the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed." Robert Schuller (from a Tidbits paper)
"In fighting those who serve devils one always has this on one's side: their Masters hate them as much as they hate us." - C.S. Lewis (That Hideous Strength)
"There is a morbid dislike of strong language today; an excessive fear of giving any offense; a constant flinching from directness and plain speaking." - Bishop Ryle (1856)
"Success is the best revenge." -?
“The main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things.” -Alistair Begg
" If all of you knew what is inside me you wouldn't listen, and if I knew what was inside of you I wouldn't waste my time." -Alistair Begg
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." -Patrick Henry
"Life is hard, but it's harder if you're stupid." - most often attributed to Michael Crichton
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing." -William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help little men by tearing down big men. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves." - William John Henry Boetcker
"Sin is a brat that nobody is willing to own." -Matthew Henry
“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat." - Edgar Allen Poe
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” - C.S. Lewis
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” - C.S. Lewis
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
"For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God." -Alexandre Dumas; The Count Of Monte Cristo
"This above all: to thine own self be true,And it must follow, as the night the day,Thou canst not then be false to any man." William Shakespeare, Hamlet.
"There's a way to preach the Bible unbiblically...You can use the Bible as the springboard for all kinds of ideas, can't you? Look around in here and find something that fits your fancy and then launch a rocket off it. People say, 'That was amazing, wasn't it? Remarkable what he got out of that.' Well of course it is because he put it in before he got it out." - Alastair Begg
"A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky." - The Count Of Monte Cristo
"A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well." -?
"In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money can not buy... to wit the wag of a dog's tail" - Josh Billings
“From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.” - Edgar Allan Poe
“Worry is a misuse of the imagination.” - Dan Zadra
"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies." - Nelson Mandela
“The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.” - Lao Tzu
"In order for you to insult me, I would first have to value your opinion." - ?
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” - Voltaire
" Life is pain, Highness! Anyone who says differently is selling something." - The Princess Bride
"Our joys have shadows. The perfect smile belongs to God." - Les Miserables
"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory." - Albert Schweitzer
"A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything." - Irish proverb
"A library is a hospital for the mind." - Anonymous
"My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I'm in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with the artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation..." -Sherlock Holmes; The Sign Of The Four.
"The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." -Ray Bradbury
"I will not say do not weep, for not all tears are an evil." - J.R.R. Tolkien.
"Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past." - Lily Tomlin
"If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” - Sirius Black; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity.” - Dorothy Parker
"Love letters are the campaign promises of the heart. " - Robert Friedman
"Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip." - Winston Churchill
"Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal." - Laura Miller
"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion" - Alexander the Great
"The wide world is all about you; you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out. " Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
"The smallest feline is a masterpiece." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Fate whispers to the warrior, 'You cannot withstand this storm.' The warrior whisper's back, 'I am the storm.'" - ?
"Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society." - Aristotle
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." - Thomas Jefferson
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." - Thomas Jefferson
"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government." - Thomas Jefferson
"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." - Thomas Jefferson
"A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge." Tyrion Lannister, A Game Of Thrones series.
"The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise
men do foolishly." - Touchstone; As You Like It
"Prayer doesn't change God as much as prayer changes us." - Pastor Don Bilbury
"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably." - C.S. Lewis
"The society that separates scholars from it's warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools" - Thucydides
“Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.” Jean Craighead George
"Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good." - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
"Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called 'mad' and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called 'writers' and they do pretty much the same thing." ~ Ray Bradbury
Mark Steyn
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life." Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek TNG
"If you tell lies to yourself, you'll tell lies to anyone." Alastair Begg
"Don't worry if you make waves simply by being yourself... the moon does it all the time." - Scott Stabile
"No, the burned hand teaches best. After that advice about fire goes to the heart" - Gandalf, The Two Towers, Tolkien.
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