"You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United States." This was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands."

-- James Madison

#Hands Quotes #Giving Quotes #Brain Quotes

“The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.”
“You cannot play with Riquelme without playing for Riquelme.”
“Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves.”
“Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.”

Source : Frederick William Faber (1860). “Spiritual conferences”, p.32
“It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.”
“There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.”
“If your primary focus is to get over your health problems or get past a relationship crisis so that you can return to your former life and old patterns- that is, get back to business as usual-you are not really living. The distinction is paradoxical and sometimes subtle. It's the difference between walking through your life on your way to somewhere, and walking as your life. Even if you believe that where you want to get is extremely important, that destination is secondary. Your immediate experience is what really matters. It is your life.”
“I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.”

Source : "Irrational. Contradictory. Mad" by Allison Pearson, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2007.

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