-
“no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.”
-
“Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.”
-
“... you never knew what was going to happen in concert. It was a really exciting prospect to go onstage, and you can hear that in the live recordings ... wherever we were and whatever year it was, we always went onstage determined to do our best ...”
-
“Of course I took something from the [Glee set]. I took my entire shoe collection, that's all I would ever need.”
-
“Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.”
Source : Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph”, p.74, Penguin
-
“God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.”
Source : Randy Alcorn (2012). “The Treasure Principle: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving”, p.69, Multnomah
-
“They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.”
-
“It takes practice to use one's eyes, even when God has opened them. And there are some believers who never get beyond confounding a doctrinal statement of a truth with a living exemplification of that truth.”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 113), 1895.