Albeck Gymnasium Quotes

#1. It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.

C.S. Lewis

#2. As we have just observed, nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness.

Victor Hugo

#3. As a manager your job is not to teach people talent. Your job is to help them earn the accolade "talented" by matching their talent to the role. To do this well, like all great managers, you have to pay close attention to the subtle but significant differences between roles.

Marcus Buckingham

#4. For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

Virginia Woolf

#5. The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it -

David Shields

#6. I think if my child died I would prefer it if I were dead.

Saoirse Ronan

#7. Joy is not a feeling in us. Joy does not enter into us. We enter into joy: "Enter into the joy of your Lord" (Mt 25:21).

Peter Kreeft

#8. I could kiss her. I could kiss her right now, but what good would that be when I knew it would have to end quickly? I wanted hours with her. Sunrises and sunsets buried between her legs.

Claire Contreras

#9. Out of the believer's heart shall flow rivers of living water (John 7:38). The astonishing new reality in this mighty flow of the Spirit is how sovereignly God is bringing together streams of life that have been isolated from one another for a very long time.

Richard J. Foster

#10. The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.

John Maynard Smith

#11. Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Aldo Leopold

#12. He looked me right in the eyes and slowly touched his nose to mine, stealing my heart and halting my breath. I held him close and he purred a tiny kitten purr that told me he belonged there.

Dara Lane

#13. Have you ever stopped to think that Christianity is the only religion in which the first step is to say, "I'm wrong?"

Dwight Longenecker