"To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence."

-- John Quincy Adams

#Mean Quotes #Benefits Quotes #Spheres Quotes

“People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.”
“There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us. Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you "Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?" - Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent. Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn't. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.”
“Always engage in the quest for life's meaning, which is inner peace.”
“The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name.”
“Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon.”
“Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.”

Source : Ralph Keyes (2003). “The Writer's Book of Hope: Getting from Frustration to Publication”, p.49, Macmillan
“That is what a very Christian message is: to care about each other and to help those who need it the most.”

Source : Source: www.americanprogress.org
“Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually lost all such fanciful reference.”

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