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“I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.”
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“When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.”
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“I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.”
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“A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission.”
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“Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.”
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“In the midst of conflict, there is absolutely nothing that produces gains as dramatically as listening.”
Source : Neil Clark Warren (1998). “The Triumphant Marriage: 100 Extremely Successful Couples Reveal Their Secrets”, Focus on the Family Pub
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“And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth, we shall find that, instead of possessing the pure religion of the Gospel, they may be divided either into infidels, who deny the truth; or politicians who make religion a stalking horse for their ambition; or professors, who walk in the trammels of orthodoxy, and are more attentive to traditions and ordinances of men than to the oracles of truth.”
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“I am everything I am today, because of my past.”
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“it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.”
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“Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night of it. There is the forgetfulness and the loss of identity. The spirit, even as the body, is unstrung and burst and scattered. One goes down to death, and it leaves a mark on one forever.”
Source : "Space Chantey" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 2), 1968.
