"wisdom ain't seeing what's in your face, but recognizing what's about to come!"

-- Eric Jerome Dickey

#Faces Quotes #Your Face Quotes #Recognizing Quotes

“Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.”

Source : "Dr. Doom" by Stephen Mihm, www.nytimes.com. August 15, 2008.
“For indeed, grace is the key to it all. It is not our lavish good deeds that procure salvation, but God's lavish love and mercy. That is why the poor are as acceptable before God as the rich. It is the generosity of God, the freeness of his salvation, that lays the foundation for the society of justice for all. Even in the seemingly boring rules and regulations of tabernacle rituals, we see that God cares about the poor, that his laws make provision for the disadvantaged. God's concern for justice permeated every part of Israel's life. It should also permeate our lives.”
“Don't hit the person across from you with bits of toast, And don't, when dinner is nearly through, say 'Who's the host' It isn't done.”
“If Jim Mora loses his job with the Falcons, it most likely will be because of wins and losses. Problem is, when you work for such an image-conscious owner and in the most fickle of sports towns, random acts of dumbness tend to shrink a guy's margin for error.”
“If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam. The world has nothing to bestow From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home.”

Source : Nathaniel Cotton (1800). “Poems by Nathaniel Cotton: With the Author's Life”, p.83
“Every cause produces more than one effect.”

Source : "Progress: Its Law and Cause" (1857)
“The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You witness the artists acting as witnesses, but they provide a point of view that's less monolithic. It's less official in a certain way. Many artists are speaking in the first person singular, as a reaction to dubbed-over media commentary. The thought is: "Enough with how we're represented by the media. Let me tell the story."”

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