"If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood."

-- Daniel Berrigan

#Friday Quotes #Jesus Quotes #Looks Quotes

“but the real enemy is the cold. It steals up on you quieter than Will, and at first you shiver and your teeth chatter and you stamp your feet and dream of mulled wine and nice hot fires. It burns, it does. Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it. It's easier just to sit down ot go to sleep. They say you don't feel any pain toward the end. First you go weak and drowsy, and everything starts to fade, and then it's like sinking into a sea of warm milk. Peaceful, like.”
“Google and Facebook extend internet access across the world, but the access is generally speaking to an internet that is focused on the advertisers to those sites.”
“Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.”
“The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs.”
“H. L Mencken's Dictionary of the American Language supplies a long list of slang terms for being drunk, but the Irish are no slouches, either. They're spannered, rat-arsed, cabbaged, and hammered; ruined, legless, scorched, and blottoed; or simply trolleyed or sloshed. In Kerry, you're said to be flamin'; in Waterford, you're in the horrors; and in Cavan, you've gone baloobas, a tough one to wrap your tongue around if you ARE baloobas. In Donegal, you're steamin', while the afflicted in Limerick are out of their tree.”
“So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment.”

Source : "Krugman Contra Krugman on the Minimum Wage?" by Benjamin Powell, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2013.
“If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Don't let the opinions of others define who you are. Take them into consideration, make adjustments if necessary and then go be you!”

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