Quotes related to Proverbs 16:9
Our actions are not simply links in a closed chain of causally connected physical events. We have the capacity to be first causes, starting a new chain of cause and effect.
— Nancy Pearcey
As a leader, one must sometimes take actions that are unpopular, or whose results will not be known for years to come.
— Nelson Mandela
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Virtue is what happens when wise and courageous choices have become second nature
— NT Wright
I wasn't in a hurry. I never have to be in any particular place at any particular time. Let time watch me, not me it.
— Olga Tokarczuk
Someday he would write his memoirs, when his adventures had arranged themselves into a suitably attractive package.
— Olga Tokarczuk
Whenever I set off on any sort of journey I fall off the radar. No one knows where I am. At the point I departed from? Or at the point I'm headed to? Can there be an in-between?
— Olga Tokarczuk
Simply by the eternal laws of coincidence the key to room number nine gets lost most often by distracted travelers.
— Olga Tokarczuk
To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it ? but we must sail and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man has his will - but woman has her way.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or, to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.