"I have been in competitions for commissions. I've won most and lost some. Mostly, I've won."

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Robert Barry

#Competition Quotes #Lost Quotes #Has Beens Quotes

“I choose to suppress the initial categories I want to put people in - rich, poor, together, not together, druggie, yuppie, rocker, loser, winner, cool, uncool. I choose to remember that I don't know their struggle or their pain. I choose to err on the side of grace because someday I'll stand before God, and I pray He'll err on the side of grace with me.”
“People are giving birth underwater now. They say it's less traumatic for the baby because it's under water. But it's certainly more traumatic for the other people in the pool.”
“Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.”

Source : "The Limits of Mother Love". The New York Times Book Review, www.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.
“The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.”
“Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past.”

Source : "Complexity and the Arrow of Time". Book by Charles H. Lineweaver, Paul C. W. Davies, and Michael Ruse, p. 243, 2013.
“But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.”
“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.”
“We have suffered from the preaching of cheap grace. Grace is free, but it is not cheap. People will take anything that is free, but they are not interested in discipleship. They will take Christ as Savior but not as Lord.”

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