"Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God."

-- Oswald Chambers

#Outcomes Quotes #Reason Quotes #God Bless You Quotes

“But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.”
“Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.”

Source : George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892). “The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians”
“The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats. Tom Skelton shivered. Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells: gourds being cut, pies being baked.”
“Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.”
“I don't care if you print something nasty about me. If it's true, fine. I don't care. But just make sure it's the truth.”
“In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.”

Source : Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.179, Prabhat Prakashan
“It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction. . . Without [Theodore] Dreiser's treading out a path for naturalism none of us would have had a chance to publish.”
“. . . the world is filled with the kind of customers who deserve the care and attention I advocate, and I'd be willing to jump through hoops to win and keep them.”

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