Damped Quotes

#1. Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor damped, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue.

Sun Tzu

#2. The modern [endtimes] notion has greatly damped the zeal of the church for missions, and the sooner it is shown to be unscriptural the better for the cause of God. It neither consorts with prophecy, honours God, nor inspires the church with ardour

Charles Spurgeon

#3. Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose around you so you couldn't hear yourself think. And then, when the roar died down, even when the fires were damped, everything was different.

Anna Quindlen

#4. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

William James

#5. Be patient, if thou wouldst thy ends accomplish; for like patience is there no appliance effective of success, producing certainly abundant fruit of actions, never damped by failure, conquering all impediments.

J. K. Bharavi

#6. When I watch professional football, I love listening to John Madden because I know he knows what he's talking about. He's been both down in the trenches and in front of the bench as a coach. He knows the game.

Robert Kiyosaki

#7. If my God damns people for love but saves them for brutle warfare, then that is not the God I know or wish to worship.

Cristina Marrero

#8. I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

#9. Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#10. People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

John C. Maxwell

#11. I love everyone. Why? The moment I dislike someone, they own me. They own my energy, thoughts, feelings, etc ...

Sean Stephenson

#12. Without electricity, the air would rot.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. Friends can be useful. If nothing else, a friend is one less enemy.

Joe Abercrombie

#14. Such a better world it would be if we all had the morals of a Golden Retriever; butt sniffing notwithstanding.

A.A. Bell

#15. To be sane, we must recognise our beliefs as fictions.

James Hillman

#16. No, I just mean ... I'm not into ... this."
"This?" Her scowl deepens and her teeth bare. "Aliens?"
"Women."
"Oh. Oh."
"Yes, oh."
"Oh.

Chuck Wendig

#17. By making eye-contact, getting down to your child's level, offering a touch, or using a tone of your voice that conveys a desire to genuinely connect, you disarm yourself. You make it possible to reach your child more deeply and truly move forward together.

Hilary Flower

#18. You're sexy when you're young. You've got it going on, and then you have your kids, and you give your whole life to your kids, and then they're kind of gone, and like, what do you do? You've got to fight to stay inspired, and you've got to fight to learn new things and stay young in your heart.

Lea Thompson

#19. If you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary, I think that you are part of a system.

Haskell Wexler

#20. I am a mathematician and I can confidently say that the best figure ever produced is your phone number.

Amit Kalantri