"When you try hard to do your best, the effect on your performance is often to jinx it."

-- Patricia Ryan

#Trying Quotes #Jinx Quotes #Performances Quotes

“Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results.”

Source : Frank Haskell, Franklin Aretas Haskell, William C. Oates (1992). “Gettysburg: Two Eyewitness Accounts”, Bantam Books
“Christ's boundless grace confronts our deep necessities. Christ's promised presence confronts our sad and gloomy loneliness. Jesus thus filled with grace so overflowing, with love so tender, with sympathy so exquisite, with power so illimitable, with resources so boundless, with a nature so changeless, stands before us and says to each trembling heart, 'Fear not!'”

Source : Octavius Winslow (1860). “Divine Realities; or, spiritual reflections for the saint and sinner”, p.19
“If you are in front of a wall that you cannot get past, would you just keep banging your head into the wall?... No, you would find a new wall.”
“Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old man'. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.”
“The task of all Christian scholarshipâ€”not just biblical studiesâ€”is to study reality as a manifestation of Godâ€™s glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it, and to make it serve the good of man. It is an abdication of scholarship when Christians do academic work with little reference to God. If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God, to make his manifold glory known and loved, then to treat any subject without reference to Godâ€™s glory is not scholarship but insurrection.”
“What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.”

Source : "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. March 29, 2007.
“The pace of the game demanded a referee who was fit. It is an indictment of our game. You see referees abroad who are as fit as butcher's dogs. We have some who are fit. He wasn't fit.”

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