Loadstar Quotes

#1. The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.

Oswald Chambers

#2. By wit we search divine aspect above,
By wit we learn what secrets science yields,
By wit we speak, by wit the mind is rul'd,
By wit we govern all our actions;
Wit is the loadstar of each human thought,
Wit is the tool by which all things are wrought.

Robert Greene

#3. To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#4. I don't think we should give up on ritual. I don't think we should give up on any possible means of experiencing God.

Brian D. McLaren

#5. Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#6. Razzia: what is the time?" Razzia nodded. "Time is a social construct designed to derive order from chaos.

Derek Landy

#7. Fortune is like a widow won,And truckles to the bold alone.

William Somervile

#8. A storyteller makes us feel something. Makes us give a shit when we have no good reason to do so. Fun is not the last stop on the story train. The storyteller is master manipulator. The storyteller is cackling puppetmaster.

Chuck Wendig

#9. I drove through the stockyards of Texas on a motorcycle. It doesn't let you escape what surrounds you and what it smells like and feels like - and what hit me was the realization that something that was alive and had feelings will suffer before a piece of it is placed on our plates.

James Cromwell

#10. Eroom's law - that's Moore's law backward - observes that the number of new drugs approved per billion dollars spent on R&D has halved every nine years since 1950. Since

Peter Thiel

#11. To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.

James Dickey

#12. I don't use emojis. I go vintage.

Rami Malek

#13. No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
[Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero