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The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could be.

Ben Herbster

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

“As jou tong te skerp is kan jy dalk jou eie keel afsny”

Mercy is something we extend, not just something we intend. ~George Grant

If you knew that only a few would care that you came, would you still come? If you knew that those you loved would laugh in your face, would you still care? If you knew that the tongues you made would mock you, the mouths you made would spit at you, the hands you made would crucify you, would you still make them?

Christ did.

Max Lucado

“Great acts are made up of small deeds.”

Lao Tzu

“When you are ready to stop bargaining, He will lead you to a place of peace and blessings.” Author Unknown

In taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. ~Thomas Fuller

“Faith is believing in advance what can only be understood in reverse.” Chuck Swindoll

“Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.”

“My only hope is that I shall be clothed with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.” M. Lloyd-Jones

Grace: a gift that costs everything for the giver and nothing for the recipient. ~Philip Yancey

The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.

As you have got a life, its up to you whether you want to rule over it or allow someone else to run you.

How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent, and God will speak again.

Francois Fenelon

Opportunities are like sunrises –  if you wait too long, you miss them.

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought”

Basho

Brains can argue, but It takes heart to comfort. ~Samuel Chadwick

“If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.”

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”

Robert McCloskey

“It’s like their own personal equipment, like you have pens.”

General Syarwan Hamid of Indonasia, justifying why his soldiers carry loaded guns on the streets.

“I say no to drugs, but they don’t listen.”

Marilyn Manson, Singer

“I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.”

Stuart Pearce

“Okay, everyone, now inhale… and then dehale!”

Maury Wills, Los Angeles Dodgers captain, leading his teammates through warm-up calisthenics

“A bachelor’s life is no life for a single man.”

Samuel Goldwyn

Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction…

Pierre Pachet, 1872

Radio has no future…

“I would not say he (David Ginola) is the best left winger in the Premiership, but there are none better.”

Ron Atkinson

Most cars on our roads have only one occupant, usually the driver.

Carol Malia

“The private enterprise system indicates that some people have higher incomes than others.”

Gerry Brown

“Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean.”

“Watch the time -it gives you an indication of how fast they are running.”

Ron Pickering

No audience will ever be able to take more than ten minutes of animation…

“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

“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.”

Dan Quayle

“Mr. Milosevic has to be careful. The calendar is ticking.”

Richard Haas, NBC News consultant

“Can you hear me? Squeeze once for yes and twice for no.”

Police detective questioning a wounded officer

You guys are unique in your own way

Mia Hammond