Speckman Quotes

#1. I watched, baffled, as Will Speckman floated like an angel, drifting down to the marina dock a hundred yards away. My mind suggested all kinds of crazy answers.
The Trinity can fly. Will Speckman is actually a bird. Gravity has taken the night off.

Kathy Reichs

#2. Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves.

Kavita Ramdas

#3. The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.

Barry Commoner

#4. It is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things ... They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.

Kangana Ranaut

#5. We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

Harold Nicolson

#6. Teach me about some taxes. Why didn't nobody teach me about taxes on TV? Why don't nobody teach us about none of that man? What's going on? Why don't people teach us about getting together?

Brandon McCartney

#7. Where there is willpower there is a Band Aid that's eventually going to fall off.

You only need willpower to get what you don't want or you only want to want. By want to want, I mean, something you wish you wanted but don't really.

Augusten Burroughs

#8. Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.

Freeman Dyson

#9. It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.

David Baldacci

#10. When we reached the stairs, I could hear somebody scream.
"should I call the police?" Prosper asked me.
"No," I said "Find a clean sheet of paper and a sharp pencil, and sketch out nine rows of fourteen squares each," and I left him gaping at me and ran up the stairs.

Lemony Snicket

#11. Looking back is a form of insanity, given that I could really never understand what everybody else was thinking. I find these days that I'm much more efficient when I just focus on what I need to do in order to move my family forward and get the focus off me.

Grant Bowler

#12. The key to success is to be a lifelong learner who continuously works hard to improve.

Jon Gordon

#13. Abraham entered into what God was doing for him, and that was the turning point. He trusted God to set him right instead of trying to be right on his own. Romans 4:3

Eugene H. Peterson

#14. They are in the middle of the sidewalk, face to face, between a tobacco shop and a trash can. Everything they've never said flows into the narrow space between them.

Alexis M. Smith

#15. As we die from one life into the next ... we may also die and be reborn in a single lifetime ... and the story, the journey, goes on and on ...

Dan Millman

#16. What I believe about the young age of the earth comes out of taking the Bible as written. And I've said numerous times over the years that the age of the earth, for example, is not a salvation issue but an authority issue.

Ken Ham