Yocum Quotes

#1. I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.

Pat Gillick

#2. Good people will outlast the rule of the Church. No rule of law lasts for long, and there is nothing that can wholly destroy the good and evil that lives in man. It's ours to own for the duration of time and whatever exists beyond.

Nathan Yocum

#3. The burden of genius is not the labor of our endeavors but in sharing the world with fools who don't know they are fools. Mark my words, the pseudointellectual will be the death of us all.

Nathan Yocum

#4. Why did God make creatures as complex as women for creatures as simple as men?

Nathan Yocum

#5. I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.

Jane D. Hull

#6. If the Dauntless knew about this, everyone would be getting in line to learn how to drive it," he says. "Including me."
"No, they would be strapping themselves to the wings." Christina pokes his arm. "Don't you know your own faction?

Veronica Roth

#7. Within the market society each serves all his fellow citizens and each is served by them. It is a system of mutual exchange of services and commodities, a mutual giving, and receiving.

Ludwig Von Mises

#8. What brings you to our gorgeous, God-given paradise, our Eden of monsters and half-men?

Nathan Yocum

#9. Ravens are like step-children," Ty answered as he squinted up at the screen. "I love them, but they're still sleeping on the couch when the house is full.

Abigail Roux

#10. Church and God ain't the same thing. From what I know, God's perfect. The Church makes mistakes ... God's about order, Church is about power, as best as I can figure, to be against one is not to be against the other.

Nathan Yocum

#11. Leadership vision is built on the leader's authenticity.

Pearl Zhu

#12. There is some unwritten code or law that all women or means must be into Hinduism or Mysticism or psychics by the time they reach fifty years of age. The male equivalent is ornate guns. All aging women find psychics, all aging males find gun cabinets and expensive brandy. There's your truth.

Nathan Yocum

#13. The only people who get better are people who know that, if they never get better, God will love them anyway.

Steve Brown

#14. When Christ becomes our central focus, contentment replaces our anxiety as well as our fears and insecurities.

Charles R. Swindoll