Quotes About 242

#1. Prayer, true prayer, does not allow us to deceive ourselves. It relaxes the tension of our self-inflation. It produces a clearness of spiritual vision. . . . It saps our self-deception and its Pharisaism. . . . So by prayer we acquire our true selves."242

Timothy J. Keller

#2. The outcome was clear to Dodd well before the votes were counted. He wrote to Roosevelt, "The election here is a farce." Nothing indicated this more clearly than the vote within the camp at Dachau: 2,154 of 2,242 prisoners - 96 percent - voted in favor of Hitler's government. On

Erik Larson

#3. You cannot have qualifications without experience; and you cannot have experience without personal interest and bias. That may not be an ideal arrangement; but it is the way the world is built and we must make the best of it. p 242

George Bernard Shaw

#4. We cant go around picking up every pile of dust in the place just in case it turns out to be Gregor in the morning.
-Pg.242-

Cassandra Clare

#5. The most isolated inhabited island in the world is Tristan da Cunha, an active volcano located in the middle of the south Atlantic Ocean 1,242 miles (2,000 kilometers) from the nearest land. Tristan da Cunha is Portuguese for "Where the fuck are we?!

Cary McNeal

#6. Since 2008, batters have hit only .175 against pitches thrown at 100 m.p.h. or above. Batting averages go up as the speed of the pitches goes down: .210 at 99, .213 at 98, .225 at 97, .242 at 96 and .252 at 95.

Barry Bearak

#7. In Gadsden County, Florida, for example, students were required to take a total of 242 standardized exams between kindergarten and their high school graduation day, according to a recent study by the conservative Foundation for Excellence in Education.

Anonymous

#8. In the course of the year I spent trying to raise money, I spoke to 242 people, and 217 of them said no.

Howard Schultz

#9. I know. But I don't want her (Lissa) to get in trouble." (Rose)
He (Christian) snorted. "But you don't mind if I do?"
I shrugged. "Not really."
"You're a piece of work, you know that?"
"Yeah. I do, actually."
(pg 242)

Richelle Mead

#10. Is he blind, or merely stupid?"

"He is honorable. Sometimes it amounts to the same thing.

George R R Martin

#11. You cannot believe what you do not believe, Rumi siad. I am an Untouchable because my karma dictates it.

Christopher Moore

#12. Every evening, write down the six most important things that you must do the next day. Then while you sleep your subconscious will work on the best ways for you to accomplish them. Your next day will go much more smoothly.

Tom Hopkins

#13. I like to pick out a certain part of each show I'm in and I watch it when I'm not onstage or in my dressing room. I'll go down to the stage and watch that part of the show each night.

Colin Donnell

#14. An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.

Alfred North Whitehead

#15. If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste time. I encourage fools. I slip the vital hours into penny slot machines
to pass time, to start my stuck wheels only love can oil.

Elizabeth Smart

#16. As zookeepers, the Zabinskis understood both vigilance and predators; in a swamp of vipers, one planned every footstep. Shaped by the gravity of wartime, it wasn't always clear who or what could be considered outside or inside, loyal or turncoat, predator or prey.

Diane Ackerman

#17. I never thought it was fair that anatomy decided what my brain was fit for.

C.J. Redwine

#18. I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.

Alber Elbaz

#19. An Eskimo shaman said, "Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls".

Annie Dillard

#20. It's what we wanted: contact with another civilization. We have it, this contact! Our own monstrous ugliness, our own buffoonery and shame, magnified as if it was under a microscope!

Stanislaw Lem

#21. You shouldn't do that. Not to your child. You should-carry your own burdens.

Cassandra Clare