S Austin Quotes
Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.' It's the rought waters that train us to e His disciples. He uses the turbulent times I our lives to prepare us for His purposes-if we'll let Him.
I told my fans online how I hated my squeaky office chair. One day, a fan sent me a new chair. It was crazy! I still use the chair today. Pretty awesome.
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don't have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.
One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really many people acting in concert to make or protect their money.
Computers had their origin in military cryptography-in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression.
When you're doing fantasy, you can get so caught up in the magic of it that you lose the humanity.
I want to be the band everyone knows that goes hardest. Plays the hardest, parties the hardest, lives the hardest, loves the hardest, does everything the hardest, harder than anybody else.
A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.
Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.
Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same place.
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.
When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve.
All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,-- The coin, Tiberius.
When you're at dinner with somebody and they are on their phone. I think there's that lost art of conversation and so I just always try to keep my phone far away from me when I'm with people.
When I think of nu-metal, I think of Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot and even Chevelle - those types of bands.
I think that the people who put caps and the people who put genres on music are the people who are killing our music industry.
Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.
The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun.
Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face.
A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.
You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."
