"People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different."

-- Colin Firth

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Going Out Quotes

“When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality .”

Source : "Space Chantey" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 1), 1968.
“The artist should not be satisfied to only play the part of a mirror.”
“During the investigation evidence of the vulnerability of women in the modelling profession was startling and models are at high risk of eating disorders.”
“So I had this problem -- work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer.”
“The Christmas season is also that time of year when the business world implores us to consider the material as more important than the spiritual, all in the spirit of 'the holidays.' So we celebrate the arrival on Christmas Day of iPods and DVDs... Then again, maybe this is precisely the kind of seasonal silliness that causes the Christian faithful to shut out the noise and contemplate the real nativity scene and its eternal promise.”
“So, tell me,â€ he whispers. â€œHow fast did you climb those fourteen stories?â€ Thomas makes a disapproving sound in his throat, but I break into a grin. Stormâ€™s past. Metias loves me again. â€œSix minutes,â€ I whisper back to my brother. â€œAnd forty-four seconds. How do you like that?â€ â€œThat must be some sort of record. Not that, you know, youâ€™re supposed to do it.”
“Success is not for the weak and uncommitted... Sometimes it's gonna hurt!”
“Don't try to be original; just try to be good.”

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