"To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell."

-- Will Carleton

#Appreciate Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Fifteen Quotes

“Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.”
“...It is statistically irrefutable that those American cities with stringent "gun control" (e.g. N.Y.C., D.C., Chicago, L.A.) have higher crime rates. It is also irrefutable that those 31 states which have made conceal carry of handguns easy for law-abiding citizens have correspondingly enjoyed significant drops in their crime rates.”
“Who said it first? We don't know, but very often we find the same ideas attributed to two different people. All we can do is give you both. . . . The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
“Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose.”
“Keeping your head down and doing the best job you can in the beginning gives you the opportunity to be evaluated on the basis of the contributions you are making. [Then], when you feel strongly about your work or about a position, you'll be given more attention [than] if you hadn't done that constantly.”
“Lord Jesus, I'm going to obey you, and love you, and serve you, and do what you want me to do, as long as I live even if I go to Hell at the end of the road, simply because YOU ARE WORTHY TO BE LOVED, AND OBEYED, AND SERVED, and I 'm not trying to make a deal with you!”
“The hand check has always been a part of pro basketball.”
“Every day in practice I have to lead by example. But at the same time, when people aren't doing what they're supposed to be doing, you're responsible as a player. You can't rely on the coaches to say everything. The players have to be responsible and take ownership of the team. Every day in practice there are situations where you need to say something and get a message across, but do it in the right way.”

Source : "Jeremy Lin: Taking Harvard basketball to new levels". StudentSoul.org Interview, studentsoul.intervarsity.org. March 12, 2010.

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