"The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves."

-- Wendell Phillips

#Moving Quotes #Progress Quotes #World Quotes

“Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.”
“One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to coming to Jesus. The first thing we realize when we come to Jesus is that He pays no attention whatever to our natural affinities. We have the notion that we can consecrate our gifts to God. You cannot consecrate what is not yours; there is only one thing you can consecrate to God, and that is your right to yourself (Romans 12:1). If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you. Godâ€™s experiments always succeed”

Source : Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”
“It is the very survival of the streets that makes children pick up guns in Somalia, not some older, wide-eyed rebel leader. My intimate experiences during these years are something which I have shared with people through my music but am very careful about how they are addressed.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“That was one of the bravest, stupidest things youâ€™ve ever done,â€ he said into my hair. â€œYou just scared ten years off my life.â€ I let out a little laugh, adrenaline still pumping through my system. â€œYouâ€™re immortal, dummy.â€ â€œI was before I met you,â€ he quipped.”

Source : Jenna Black (2011). “Sirensong: A Faeriewalker Novel”, p.148, Macmillan
“Home Depot knows 'the more they help, the more they sell'-oh by the way, for the 'bottom liners' who disagree-it's also vice-versa.”
“In France, everybody realized that God exists, and that he is back in the French international team. God is back, there is little left to say.”
“It was unbelievable seeing me as an action figure! In a few months, toddlers all around the country will be biting my head off!”
“It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.”

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