It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
John Ruskin
Recitation: by Male by Female
My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.
Max Lucado
FaithTimeScoutBoyWayFirst
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
John Jay Chapman
HabitSunPeopleColdWorryYou
Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity in their backgrounds ends.
Robert Gottlieb
BrightJewishPointManhattanWho
Serious is when they tell you, 'You've got cancer.' Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not.
Michael Douglas
RestYouSeriousTellCancerGot
I was talking to my dad, who's a neurosurgeon. He had this academic paper he wanted to publish. Journals take about 18 months to publish a paper, and he just wanted to get things up there.
Trip Adler
TalkingUpAcademicThingsTakeGet
I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.
Robyn Davidson
LoveSpaceDesertSenseIncomparable
Every day, you got to do adjustments. Every pitch. You got to do what it takes.
Miguel Cabrera
DayYouEvery DayGotEveryTakes
I married someone I didn't love. I was too polite to say no.
Lisa Jewell
LoveSomeoneSayMarriedTooPolite
I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school.
Christina Milian
FightSchoolWeekLivingFirstGot
New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut.
Craig Kilborn
PlanningTaxNewKnowNowPresident
I did 'Beetlejuice,' and it was a big movie, but it didn't help my high-school experience. In fact, it made it worse. I was a freak and a witch.
Winona Ryder
ExperienceHelpFreakBigWorseDid
Getting out any weekly magazine requires many hours of reading, choosing, discarding, and thinking beyond the obvious.
Pete Hamill
ReadingThinkingBeyondOutWeekly
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