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“I once knew a man out of courtesy help a lame dog over a stile, and he for requital bit his fingers.”
Source : 'The Religion of Protestants' (1637)
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“It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.”
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“God hath long contended with a stubborn world, and thrown down many a blessing upon them; and when all his other gifts could not prevail, He at last made a gift of Himself.”
Source : Henry Scougal (2013). “The Life of God in the Soul of Man”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
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“Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.”
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“If you rest, you rust.”
Source : Helen Hayes, Katherine Hatch (1991). “My life in three acts”
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“When I was in junior high I read a lot of Danielle Steele. So I always assumed that the day I got engaged I'd be naked, covered in rose petals, and sleeping with the brother of the man who'd kidnapped me.”
Source : Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.68, Pan Macmillan
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“Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.”
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“I don't think anyone could ever be wholly satisfied with their performance.”
Source : Source: collider.com
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“I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.”
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“Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are statistically decorous and methodologically unimpeachable, but conclusions are often trivial and rarely useful in decision making. This results from an overly rigorous control of an insignificant variable and a widespread deficiency in the framing of pertinent questions. Investigators seem to have settled for what is measurable instead of measuring what they would really like to know.”
