Stephen De Staebler Quotes

#1. A day came when all the rebel in me knew itself beaten, and then my whole nature bowed down in humble resignation in the dust. And then I saw... I saw that he was as incomparable in beauty as he was in terror. I was saved, I was rescued.

Rabindranath Tagore

#2. The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#3. Yon rose-buds in the morning-dew, How pure amang the leaves sae green!

Robert Burns

#4. If it was killing-and it was- then I thought it not murder, but a justifiable homicide, undertaken in desperate self defense.

Diana Gabaldon

#5. There is an investment of your own life experience in something as innocent as colour.

Stephen De Staebler

#6. The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.

John Stott

#7. The quickest way for anyone to reach the sun and the light of day is not to run west, chasing after the setting sun, but to head east, plunging into the darkness until one comes to the sunrise.

Gerald L. Sittser

#8. Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive.

David Sedaris

#9. It takes your mind off things when there's a cat in your lip and he's purring while you're petting him.

Kathleen Hanna

#10. When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

Nhat Hanh

#11. A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise a small number of truths are loosely laid hold of, without their connexion being perceived, and numerous errors, without being enabled to detect their fallacy.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#12. Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

Ken Jennings

#13. come from a place of curiousity, rather than from judgment

Evelyn Tribole

#14. Samia, it appeared, had become one of those desis who drink Pepsi in Pakistan and lassi in London.

Kamila Shamsie

#15. I have discovered that the unasked-for accident can be the salvation of what you are doing.

Stephen De Staebler

#16. One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read
what not to see or what not to listen to.

Ezra Taft Benson

#17. Donohue: "It is Christianity that [Manson] hates, and it is Catholicism that he hates most of all. This guy is at war with Christ." Manson: "I can't possibly be at war with Christ, because your religion killed him and what he stood for. But if you want to be at war with me, bring it on."

Marilyn Manson