"It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool."

-- L. Frank Baum

#Feelings Quotes #Fool Quotes #Uncomfortable Quotes

“When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time.”
“After the fire, when I'd tried to express my gratitude for their kindness to our customers, they'd been awkward, uncomfortable. My father had had to explain to me that giving thanks is not a common practice in India. 'Then how do you know if people appreciated what you did?' I'd asked. 'Do you really need to know?' my father had asked back.”
“I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above answers...creativity above fact regurgitation...individuality above conformity.. and excellence above standardized performance..... And we must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.”
“Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.”
“Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.”
“When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish, to cause them to mean biting my hook. I believed they would do it if I asked them well and patiently and with the right hope. I am writing my poems like this. I have used the fabric and the people of my life as the bait.”
“If you are worrying about tomorrow, you can't possibly enjoy today. Think about it: you can't really give God tomorrow; you can give him only what you have, and today is all you have.”

Source : Tim LaHaye (2014). “Spirit-Controlled Temperament”, p.164, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.”

Source : "Terrorists are not just Muslims" by Bennie Thompson, www.politico.com. January 27, 2011.

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