"Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence."

-- Ellen G. White

#Dying Quotes #Legacy Quotes #Miserable Quotes

“Humility is to joyfully, voluntarily and quietly submit one's whole life to God's will, to finally use the gift of agency to give one's life back to Him.”
“Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.”
“Italy is now a great country to invest in... Today we have fewer communists and those who are still there deny having been one. Another reason to invest in Italy is that we have beautiful secretaries... superb girls.”
“I do not deal with subtleties; I am only a lawyer.”
“There's absolutely no reason for NATO to be sticking its fingers up the nostrils of Russia at every orifice. I mean, it's absurd. It's absolutely absurd.”
“If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.”
“Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.”
“In my few short years I learned that seeing what's positive about a situation is a lot more fun and gets you a lot further than looking for what might be wrong with it.”

Source : D.J. MacHale (2009). “Pendragon: The Lost City Of Faar”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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