"Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees."

-- J. C. Ryle

#Thinking Quotes #Trials Quotes #World Quotes

“My first language is Gaelic.”

Source : Interview with Rachel Corcoran, www.saga.co.uk. November 2, 2015.
“Such is friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as bright bodies emit rays to a distance, and flowers drop their sweet leaves on the ground around them, so friends impart favor even to the places where they dwell. With friends even poverty is pleasant. Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts; they only can know who have experienced. A friend is dearer than the light of heaven, for it would be better for us that the sun were exhausted than that we should be without friends.”
“We live in a melting pot. More and more, people are some kind of mixture. Even if you're Caucasian, you're a mixture of something.”
“If I had caused any trouble worth mentioning, you would have read about it in 'Star' magazine, which is probably why I didn't cause any trouble worth mentioning.”
“The past several months have brought on much introspection, and I have decided that while my desire to compete on Sundays is still and always will be there, my willingness to commit to the preparation necessary to play another season has waned to a level that I feel is no longer adequate to meet the demands of the position,”

Source : "Kerry Collins Has Retired From The NFL After 16 Seasons". www.businessinsider.com. July 7, 2011.
“Anyone who gets divorced goes through a lot of pain ... I don't think I want to get married again.”
“I'd like to be remembered for being a good-hearted soul that left this planet better than I found it.”
“To know the piano is to know the universe. To master the piano is to master the universe. The spectrum of piano sound acts as a prism through which all musical and non-musical sounds may be filtered. The grunts of sheep, the braying of mules, the popping of champagne corks, the sighs of unrequited love, not to mention the full lexicon of sounds available to all other instruments-including whistles, scrapes, bleatings, caresses, thuds, hoots, plus sweet and sour pluckings-fall within the sovereignty of this most bare and dissembling chameleon.”

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