Graaf Quotes

#1. The goal of our lives should be nothing less that becoming so familiar with the "mind of Christ" that we could write Jesus' speeches.

Clare De Graaf

#2. Houston, that may have seemed like a very long final phase. The autotargeting was taking us right into a ... crater, with a large number of big boulders and rocks ... and it required ... flying manually over the rock field to find a reasonably good area.

Neil Armstrong

#3. Pray with reverence, not half-heartedness.

Francis Chan

#4. I was always taught to write the book you want to read. It's a philosophy I haven't wavered from since.

E.A. De Graaf

#5. I was always the new kid, and I got to know the language and the politics of being on the outside, looking in. Never being in the clique - always being a student of the clique, a subversive, and I could look around and identify the other guys who were excluded.

Padgett Powell

#6. [The 10-Second Rule's] power is in its simplicity, and yet it gets straight to the heart of what it means to actually follow Jesus.

Clare De Graaf

#7. Life is nor about 'Having', it's about 'Being'.

Ton De Graaf

#8. Even afterwards when you go through a scene and then step off, sometimes you need a minute to just decompress.

Aldis Hodge

#9. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. - G. K. CHESTERTON

Clare De Graaf

#10. To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.

Henry Ford

#11. More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents' lingering vinyl collections.

Peter Hammill

#12. [The Rule:] Just do the next thing you're reasonably certain Jesus wants you to do.

Clare De Graaf

#13. As I stood behind you, I sensed that God was telling me to pay for your groceries, so I did. Simple as that.

Clare De Graaf

#14. Up until I was thirty years old I was your standard issue Christian- the kind christian schools and churches in our town pounded out year after year like spiritual Model-T's, mostly in one color-beige. We were covenant children, so we figured we came with a cradle-to-grave, salvational warrantee.

Clare De Graaf

#15. The major mistake people pursue in decision making is to surround themselves with negatively minded people. People who are going nowhere will never take you anywhere; people who are going everywhere can take you somewhere.

Israelmore Ayivor

#16. There's always a Van der Graaf audience that wants to hear the band's sound. And totally fair enough. Why not? It's a band. You like the band, you like the band.

Peter Hammill

#17. Poverty on both a personal and worldwide level is supported by our collective belief in scarcity.

Shakti Gawain

#18. Nixon would like to consign us to to the level of the most backward countries in the whole Middle East. Why lower us to the standard of the Saudis rather than raising the Saudis to meet us?

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#19. You can't always have the full picture to everything in life, you'll only learn as you make more mistakes.

Auliq Ice

#20. Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.

Assata Shakur