"A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it."

-- Josh Billings

#Blow Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Hornets Quotes

“Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.”

Source : "Oklahoma City Adds Precision to Its Already Potent Offense" by Beckley Mason, www.nytimes.com. December 5, 2012.
“When I was taught the Gyokko Ryu Koshijutsu Kihon Gata, there were in this engendering of fundamental form the eight methods. *I was told that this kihon happo is the origin of all budo. So I say to you earnestly, you make this the basis and teach it to your students.”
“Young men, terminate, I beseech you, in your own experience, the sad divorce which has too often existed between intellect and piety. Take your stand, unswerving, heroic, by the altar of truth; and from that altar let neither sophistry nor ridicule expel you. Let your faith rest with a child's trust, with a martyr's grip, upon the truth as it is in Jesus.”

Source : William Morley Punshon (1857). “John Bunyan, a lecture”, p.24
“When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time, and then we became friends. And then we lost touch, which I'm really sorry about.”
“Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.”
“Anybody who wants to go into any business, I always say that you have to make a commitment to yourself to make it a part of your nature like the air you breathe. I don't mean that lightly. It's hard. You have to do the work, and a lot of it is going to be during your own personal downtime. And you have to be interested in it. You can never study enough, and you can never learn enough.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.”
“You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.”

Source : Charles Simeon (1847). “Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Charles Simeon ...: With a Selection from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.654

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