Corsairs Quotes

#1. Half of the castle has, at one point or another, been burned down by a combination of Barbary corsairs, lightning bolts, Napoleon, and smoking in bed.

Neal Stephenson

#2. This is how worship is connected to our ability to love. When we give our ultimate allegiance to any of the principalities and powers, large or small, we find ourselves perennially at war with anyone who places these things at risk. Idolatry breeds perpetual vigilance and violence.

Richard Beck

#3. If I ever stop acting, I'd like to be the author of that decision.

Paul Schneider

#4. We must ... submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.

Robert E.Lee

#5. Develop a reputation as a person who, rather than talking a good game, actually plays a good game.

Bob Burg

#6. We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted.

Theodore Roosevelt

#7. The more men you see die, the easier it becomes to die yourself; and in my opinion, death may be a torture, but it is not an expiation.

Alexandre Dumas

#8. Life peels us like an onion and every layer is softer and sweeter.

Kristen Heitzmann

#9. Faith may be encouraged by what has happened in the past, or what is thought to have happened in the past, but the only proof of it is in the future.

Sydney Carter