Quotables

“The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.”
- Larry Hardiman

My life can sometimes be summed up by the bumper sticker that says: "Give Me Patience, Lord. RIGHT NOW!"

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know."
- Mark Twain

"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
- Blaise Pascal

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The only ones among you who will really be happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."
- Albert Schweitzer

"The toughest task is to live with unexpected, unwanted answers."
- William Willimon

"Faith is not something to grasp; it is a state to grow into."
- Mohandas Gandhi

"It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside."
-  Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers)

If you think you misjudge the future, take comfort:

"That rainbow song's no good. Take it out." -
-  MGM memo after first showing of The Wizard of Oz.

"You'd better learn secretarial skills or else get married."
-  Modeling agency, rejecting Marilyn Monroe in 1944.

"Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax." "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible."
-  Royal Society president Lord Kelvin, 1897-9.

 "I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper."
-Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind."

"The worst things are never the last things."
- John Claypool 

"Healing is possible ... even when a cure is not."
- Bill Moyers

 "Understand that you may believe; believe that you may understand."
- St. Augustine

"The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks."
- G. K. Chesterton

"Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week."
- Maggie Kuhn

"God tends to confound, astonish and flabbergast. A Bethlehem stable, a Roman cross, an empty garden tomb. We might as well reconcile ourselves to the fact that God's truth often turns up in ways we don't expect."
- Sue Monk Kidd 

"Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection."
- Watchman Nee

Quotables for Oct 08

"Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by accidents of time or place or circumstance, are brought into closer connection with you."
-St. Augustine

"Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees. "
-Williard Marriott

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."
-Charlotte Bronte

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."
-John Barrymore

"I have always had a great respect for a Philippine proverb: 'Into the closed mouth the fly does not get.'"
-Attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.

"The future story of the Resurrection begins in this life, as a seed planted in the ground. The new life begins now, right here in the midst of this changing and transient world."
-John La Farge

"Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf of springtime."

-Martin Luther

"You're never fully dressed without a smile."

-Martin Charnin

"The function of prayer is to set God at the center of attention."
-Albert Edward Day

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
-Thomas A. Edison

"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough."
-Frank Crane, M.D.

"What greater rebellion, impiety, or insult to God can there be, than not to believe His promises?"
-Martin Luther

"I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."
-Jerome K. Jerome

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
-Winston Churchill

Posted for July 2008

Updated:  09/21/08