We have a saying that a stranger's soul is like a black box. Which is why I would not want to analyze [Vladimir] Putin's psychological motivations.
Saying "yes" doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying "please" doesn't mean I am waiting for permission.
What is needed for happy effectual service is simply to put your work into the Lord's hand, and leave it there. Do not take it to Him in prayer, saying, "Lord, guide me, Lord, give me wisdom, Lord, arrange for me," and then arise from your knees, and take the burden all back, and try to guide and arrange for yourself. Leave it with the Lord, and remember that what you trust to Him you must not worry over nor feel anxious about. Trust and worry cannot go together.
I just want to be happy. You know what I'm saying? I just want to be happy, and I want to be able to make somebody else happy.
In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.
Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.
You have to live among rich liberals to understand what they're saying. You'll never believe what they mean by 'middle class. ' They mean themselves.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you'. Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Goodbyes were impossible, unless you didn't realize you were saying them.
Innovation is saying 'no' to 1,000 things.
When I was 17 until, I don't know, 20, I had this massive, baseless confidence. This very clear idea of myself and how I would achieve success, which involved making decisions. I saw myself picking up the phone and saying 'Absolutely not' or 'Definitely yes. ' Having control. Except you have to figure out whether the way you think at 19 or 20 has any value. And eventually I understood, with all that control, which was probably illusory, I wasn't progressing. So now I'm relinquishing a bit. I'll be a tiny bit naked.
You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? [. . . ] He laughed. That is correct, Señor. It is as if ideas are made of blocks. Rigid and hard. And stories are made of a gauze that is elastic. You can almost see through it, so what is beyond is tantalizing. You can't quite make it out; and because the imagination is always moving forward, you yourself are constantly stretching. Stories are the way spirit is exercised.
This is what I give. I give an expression of care every day to each child, to help him realize that he is unique. I end each program by saying, 'You've made this day a special day by just your being you. There's no person in the whole world like you. And I like you just the way you are. ' And I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service.
Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, “I have sinned. ” The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes-a reflex action caused by self-disgust.
This white man who is saying "it takes time. " For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.
Girls who used to tell me I ain't cool enough now text me pics saying you can tear this up!
Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.
I'm not saying standardized tests are the worst ever, but there's an in-between and I don't think we're there yet. That's what I mean when I say I have an issue with it. There's no way a kid can learn in a class with 40 to 45 people. I had the power to get out of that system and pursue things that I wanted to do and I did that.
I was saying the right things, but not the really true things.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.