The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
People ask me why I work so hard and why I have this compassion to reach the top and be great. I respond by telling them, "I work insanely hard because people said I couldn't do it. " When someone tells me I can't do something, or that I'll never achieve my goals and visions, I am determined to prove them wrong.
When I lost my father, I thought I learned about grief and transition. However, nobody tells you what it's like to lose your mother. They don't tell you that you're going to feel like an orphan at whatever age you are as an adult.
Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.
There is something insincere about a man or woman who repeatedly tells God how much he or she loves Him while refusing to obey Him.
The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.
A beautiful literary collection that tells of today's country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations. At times, with today's advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America's cities, but the variety of practices is enormous. The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
My ears sort of turn off when someone tells me that what my heart is saying isn't a good idea.
When we see Christ for who He is He then tells us who we are.
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he'll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever.
No one tells me what to think. I think for me.
To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.
Any parent who tells their kids that they can't attend a school play or go to a soccer match because they have to work is kidding themselves. It's OK to miss a game or two or a performance here and there, but it's not all right to miss the majority of them.
Roughly 21,000 new brands are introduced worldwide per year, yet history tells us that more than 90% of them are gone from the shelf a year later.
If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.
Nobody really tells me what's going on, and I find out via the trades myself.
When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.
I was trained in seismic prospecting. We'd drill a deep hole and put dynamite in the bottom and blow it up remotely, which would give you a cross-sectional picture of the subsurface, which tells you where to drill.
I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.