Rebukes The Devourer Quotes

#1. As a Naval officer, I've been all over the world, and one of the foundational lessons I learned was that parents everywhere would like to raise their children to a higher standard of living in a peaceful environment. That's a universal goal for families.

Michael Mullen

#2. I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.

Madeleine Stowe

#3. When you discipline yourself to do what is hard, you gain access to a realm of results that are denied everyone else. The willingness to do what is difficult is like having a key to a special private treasure room.

Steve Pavlina

#4. We should all live in central or southwest Queensland in Australia, which is geologically stable. Or Kansas or Nebraska, because it's relatively geologically stable. I am sure there is no emergency plan for Topeka.

Simon Winchester

#5. Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

Francis Bacon

#6. Better to start off with the glad hand than a middle finger.

Blake Crouch

#7. Persistence is worth at least as much as talent. The writing life is not a series of gentle encouragements. It's more like a series of brutal kicks in the teeth. Those who grow a thick enough skin to persevere, survive. Those who do not, do not.

Gardner Dozois

#8. Great, they give blind kids guns," I said, trying to lessen his horror. "I don't even let Iggy have a gun. Usually.

James Patterson

#9. I walked away from everybody I knew. I locked myself in a loft that I rented, like I told you, where I was rolling quarters for cigarettes. I was having to borrow money off of the rent guy ... the real estate agent that was renting me the loft.

Shane Bunting

#10. When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years; when I was 40, nobody wanted me; I couldn't get a job.

Mickey Rooney

#11. The one who had the power to take me apart was also the only one with the power to put me back together again.

Raine Miller

#12. We are made up of nothing. There is no self. We are whatever we decide we are.

Frederick Lenz

#13. It is not our believing of the Gospel that makes it true. It exists as independent, true Truth.

Alistair Begg