Talley Beatty Quotes

#1. Loneliness is the penalty of leadership, but the man who has to make the decisions is assisted greatly if he feels that there is no uncertainty in the minds of those who follow him, and that his orders will be carried out confidently and in expectation of success.

Ernest Shackleton

#2. Christian education is a bomb with a long fuse - it takes a while to go off.

Howard G. Hendricks

#3. Far too many people attend church not to meet with Jesus but rather to make an appearance.

Perry Noble

#4. You are like pomegranates split open. Even the emptiest among you are as full of good as a pomegranate is full of seed.

Adam Gidwitz

#5. All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.

Nicolas Malebranche

#6. Multiplicity is a delusion. Unity is the Reality.

Sathya Sai Baba

#7. Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

Lauryn Hill

#8. We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.

Brian Greene

#9. Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.

Glen Hansard

#10. Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup in which they are obliged to be served.

Frederic Raphael

#11. Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.

Mike Myers

#12. Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

Howard Hughes

#13. Ironically the blog has re-opened the essay as a good form for me. I like to look and make commentary! If I sense my essays are good, I try to resubmit to another place in pulp and several of them have been variously published in newspapers and magazines.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#14. What if your Vision Board came true?

Juliette Power

#15. In the meantime he will have attained a place of soul rest. As he walks on in meekness he will be happy to let God defend him. The old struggle to defend himself is over. He has found the peace which meekness brings.

A.W. Tozer