Distressing Chalk Quotes

#1. The giving of the Torah is a story of God seeking to provide humanity with the opportunity to make moral decisions.

Meir Soloveichik

#2. Nothing here on earth is guaranteed," Melissa says, "except for one thing: Jesus is with us always. When I began to understand who He is, my doubts began to disappear. He is sufficient; He's enough.

Suzanne Eller

#3. The evaluative habits developed in sibling interactions undoubtedly affect the salience and choice of comparative referents in self-ability evaluations in later life

Albert Bandura

#4. Forget Not: 1)to be patient with yourself. 2) the difference between good and foolish sacrifices. 3) to be happy NOW. 4) the 'why' of the gospel. 5) the Lord loves you.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#5. Don't let anybody's opinion kill your belief in yourself.

Clinton Anderson

#6. As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.

Ron Chernow

#7. I realised when I sang at family parties and Christmases I'd suddenly get everyone's attention, and, being the youngest of three, I thought what a brilliant attention-seeking ploy it was.

Kiki Dee

#8. Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.
(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)

Patti Smith

#9. His thoughts should have kept him up all night, but with his friends this close Neil couldn't worry about anything.

Nora Sakavic

#10. My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#11. I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which His hand has drawn.

Alexis De Tocqueville