"I think hope is not simply looking around and saying that everythingâ€™s great â€“ thatâ€™s just ridiculous. For hope to have substance, it has to acknowledge the pain. But hope is saying thatâ€™s not the final story. Itâ€™s not saying pain doesnâ€™t exist, but itâ€™s saying thereâ€™s not a period at the end of that sentence. Itâ€™s still being written."

-- Tim Foreman

#Pain Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Finals Quotes

“Give vocational training to the manually minded, and the children's courts of the future will have less to do.”
“I can't exactly describe it, but as I looked at the putt, the hole looked as big as a wash tub, I suddenly became convinced I couldn't miss. All I tried to do was keep the sensation by not questioning it.”
“If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The Lord called me by the way of simplicity and humility, and this way He hath shown me in truth for me and those who will believe and imitate me. And therefore I would that ye name not to me any rule, neither of St. Augustine, nor St. Benedict, nor of Bernard, nor any way or form of living, but that which was mercifully shown and given me by the Lord.”
“The creativity that comes from silence, from a quiet heart, feels different from that of ambition to both the creator and the observer. When the artist or the worker is out of the way, both the creator and the observer experience the art as simply a gift, an expression of the impersonal intelligence shared by all. The creator has no need to take credit for it, the observer no need to possess it.”

Source : Catherine Ingram (2004). “Passionate Presence”, p.22, Penguin
“The world will be solved by millions of small things.”
“Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”
“We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.”

Source : "Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. April 7, 2005.

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