George Washington Carver said: 'No one has the right to come into this world and go out of it without leaving distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it. ' So if I'm going to be remembered for something, if I have a choice, I'd rather be known for standing up for my principles than shooting a jump shot.
When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.
Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream. [. . . ] When I fully awaken, I'm momentarily comforted. I try to hold on to the peaceful feeling of the dream, but it quickly slips away, leaving me sadder than ever.
The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor.
I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.
A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.
Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even knowing what such a thing ought to look like. But then I always have the hope that, if I persevere, it might one day happen. And this hope is nurtured every time something appears, a scattered, partial, initial hint of something which reminds me of what I long for, or which conveys a hint of it – although often enough I have been fooled by a momentary glimpse that then vanishes, leaving behind only the usual thing.
Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt.
That's like buying asparagus and then leaving it at the checkout. Why would you do that?
Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.
Did you really think I would be this excited about college if I thought I'd be leaving my girl behind?
There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.
All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him.
Around the holidays, or anytime I'm going on vacation, I try to bump up my cardio or lose a pound before leaving.
Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command … but … attempts … to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the created world, placing in doubt the truth about God who is Love and leaving man with only a sense of the master-slave relationship.
I rise from bed the first thing in the morning, leaving my couch not because I am dissatisfied with it, but because I cannot carry it with me during the day.
And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.
An unusual sensation possesses my breast - a sensation which I once thought could never pervade it on any occasion whatever. It is pleasure, pleasure, my dear Lucy, on leaving my paternal roof.
This is the new politics. Personal responsibility. Not leaving it to others. I am my planet's keeper.
Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.