"We should not lose ourselves in vainglorious sohemes for changing human nature all over the planet. Rather, we should learn to view ourselves with a sense of proportion and Christian humility before the enormous complexity of the world in which it has been given us to live."

-- George F. Kennan

#Life Quotes #Christian Quotes #Humility Quotes

“Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.”

Source : Golden Skate Online Interview, goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.
“Being brought up in a Christian home and still identifying as Christian, I get pretty annoyed with the Christian lobbies around the world who say gay marriage destroys the family and all that kind of rubbish. They claim to follow someone who always stood up for the oppressed and marginalised.”
“The pleasure and sadness of youth is that the speed of its passing is never thought about; and so you say that you will do this or that in a year, in five years, only to wake up one morning to realize that what you thought was infinitely prolonged has ended.”

Source : "The Way to Minack". Book by Derek Tangye, 1968.
“I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more”
“No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience, the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.”

Source : "The myth of the digital lifestyle" by Mark Gibbs, www.networkworld.com. January 9, 2006.
“The left has lost the common touch.”
“Yeah. Some people just don't understand when their facial hair starts to look ridiculous.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Money gives me pleasure all the time.”

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