People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
Kurt VonnegutEight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.
Terry PratchettI don’t have a magic formula for prioritizing the world’s problems.
Bill GatesLearn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.
John C. MaxwellI don’t think there’s any point going for second or third.
Lando NorrisLeadership is a choice, not a position.
Stephen CoveyFor where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
Martin LutherYoung people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Francis BaconWhen you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.
William JamesDoing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIt is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.
Pope FrancisNo one can give you better advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius CiceroBetween stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.
Stephen CoveyI believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.
Pope FrancisI bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.
Warren BuffettAll we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J. R. R. TolkienI’ve been known to have a good step or two. I’m half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.
Dwayne JohnsonI never do anything that I don’t want to do.
Kevin HartWhen I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.
Taylor SwiftOne reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.
George BestThe most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
Thomas SowellI act on impulse and I go with my instincts.
Gordon RamsayTradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. ChestertonTo succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Benjamin FranklinDistance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.
BonoCowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.
Taylor SwiftI think ‚Hail to the Chief‘ has a nice ring to it.
John F. KennedyI understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.
Alice WalkerConcentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew CarnegieHiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
Franz KafkaIf you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.
Mr. TYou and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
Harry S. TrumanThe possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
George Bernard ShawMy authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.
Pope FrancisA president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.
Henry KissingerI dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.
Pope FrancisChristians are not limited to any church.
Billy GrahamIn countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.
Nelson MandelaIt’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
George Bernard ShawI was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
Groucho MarxI can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.
Paul AusterI don’t really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.
Clint EastwoodIf you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.
Adam SandlerNext to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
Benjamin DisraeliI don’t write policy for my government.
Jim MattisMay we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary.
Charles SpurgeonTradition is the illusion of permanence.
Woody AllenOne aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn’t the right one.
Ruth Bader GinsburgWe have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.
Pope FrancisA man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Oscar WildeRisk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
Warren BuffettPrayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
Martin LutherOnce you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.
Erma BombeckIf you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.
Joyce MeyerIf you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
Narendra ModiThe government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.
Narendra ModiI’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
Alice WalkerI usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
Margaret Thatcher