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“Prayers never fall on deaf ears.” Author Unknown

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

Galileo Galilei

Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe

“The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.” Philip Yancey

Self-control is the ability to keep cool while someone is making it hot for you.

“Have faith, knowing tomorrow will hold the blessings of God.”

“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.”

Tom Krause

We can often do more for other men by correcting our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

“Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of|God’s grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God’s grace. ” Jerry Bridges

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

Leonardo da Vinci

“God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event.” Matthew Henry

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing.

A half-truth is a dangerous thing, especially if you have got hold of the wrong half.

Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop

Silence never yet betrayed any one!

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Henry Ford

When we cannot see the sunshine of God’s face, it is blessed to cower down beneath the shadow of his wings.

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”

Thomas Jefferson

It is a good answer which knows when to stop

“If it weren’t for electricity we’d all be watching television by candlelight.”

George Gobel

“We’d like to avoid problems, because when we have problems, we can have troubles.”

Wesley Bolin, Governor

“My appetite is so good that I can eat the tablecloth right off the chair.”

Joseph Moakley, Massachusetts representative

“Today is Thursday. Or what I like to call on Friday, ‘yesterday.’”

Jimmy Fallon

I do not like this word “bomb.” It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.

Jacques le Blanc

“I didn’t know Onward Christian Soldiers was a Christian song.”

Aggie Pate, at a non-denominational mayor’s breakfast, Fort Worth, Texas

As I said before, I never repeat myself.

“Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.”

Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.

“The largest crowd ever in the state of Las Vegas.”

Mark Jones, TV Broadcaster

“I don’t think we learned a lesson; I think it was a learning experience for us.”

Shaquille O’Neal, basketball player, after game 4 of the 2001 NBA finals, on being asked by NBC reporter Jim Gray if LA had learned a lesson from what happened the previous year in Indiana

“I don’t know all the certain words to word it.”

Vanilla Ice, Rap Star, on why he hired a ghostwriter for his autobiography

“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet”

Al Gore

“Guys aren’t able to get $15 or $20 million anymore, so you have to play for the love of the game.”

Penny Hardaway, NBA Basketball Player

The team has come along slow but fast.

Casey Stengel

It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human…

George W Bush

“A ‘No Parking’ sign at a certain location means…”

multiple choice question on NY State learner’s permit test

“That’s inches away from being millimetre perfect.”

Ted Lowe

“I said LUNCH not LAUNCH!!!!”

Nasa Launch Control

“A verbal contract is not worth the paper it’s written on.”

Samuel Goldwyn