43 quotes found
“You are -- your life, and nothing else.”
“I would rather drown in the depths of Love than splash around on the shore of complacency.”
“The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered by a raspberry umbrella. Only their feet and a little bit of lace could be se...”
“You or I might think that at least one would show courage and put up a fight. But neither you nor I have suffered as they, and even we have born witness in silence to lesser ills under less dire th...”
“The problem with the herd is that our voice is never heard.”
“Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney.”
“We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are f...”
“I never saw it coming; I never thought youd leave, but baby what you gave me was the courage to find me.”
“To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted”
“Achieving success is hard staying successful is even harder. ”
“There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.”
“People who become successful take every todays victory as a rehearsal for tomorrows trophy.”
“when you do great things, think as if you missed the mark by an inch; walk as if you are yet to face the greatest task; talk as if you are yet to have the best preparation for the momentous moment ...”
“That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was constantly in motion, it seemed as if nothing special ever h...”
“A person is not like a thing that you put down in one place and leave, a person moves, thinks, asks, questions, doubts, investigates, probes, and while it is true that, out of a long habit of resig...”
“Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.”
“It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.”
“We dont have a good excuse before God if our nation and people are suffering as a result of our complacency”
“Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He w...”
“The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.”
