"I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was sink. When it took off from England, all kinds of passengers were aboard - millionaires, celebrities, people of moderate means, and poor folks down in the steerage. But a few hours later when they put the list in the Cunard office in New York, it carried only two categories - lost and saved. Grim tragedy had leveled all distinctions."

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Vance Havner

#Christian Quotes #New York Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Savings is no longer about the markets, they're about playing the product game.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“When nothing was, then God was there, Had nothing been God would have been; My being has defeated me, Had I not been, what would have been.”

Source : Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, Ralph Russell (2000). “The Famous Ghalib”
“With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.”
“Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.”

Source : George W. S. Trow (1981). “Within the Context of No Context”, p.119, Atlantic Monthly Press
“I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.”
“Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but we are afraid of it; generous endurance of trials of life, but when they come we weep and ask to be. The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist.”
“But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this;-we can perceive that events are brought about, not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular ease, but by the establishment of general laws.”
“We see pluralism: We can see that there are different ideological and political positions in Russia. If the authoritarianism finally ends, we will have real competition.”

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