Then Quotes

Abraham Lincoln quoted the Scriptures in an 1858 speech to the Illinois Republican Convention. He said, “ A house divided against itself cannot stand.” That, I fear, is where diversity leads. If by that term we refer to love and tolerance for peoples who are different from one another, it has great validity for us. But if by diversity we mean that all of us have been given reason to resent one another. Having no common values, heritage, commitment, or hope, then we are a nation in serious trouble.

~ James C. Dobson

21. Take in a great breath of air and then blow it out. Contained in that single breath were at least three nitrogen atoms that were breathed by every human being who ever lived, including Jesus Christ, William Shakespeare, Winston Churchill, and every president of the United States. This illustrates the fact that everything we do affects other people, positively or negatively. That’s why it is foolish to say, “Do your own thing if it doesn’t hurt anybody else.” Everything we do affects other people.

~ James C. Dobson

26. Don’t marry someone with intolerable characteristics in the hopes of changing him or her. If you can’t live with someone who drinks or someone who isn’t a Christian or someone who isn’t clean, then don’t marry that kind of person. The chances for miraculous improvements or changes in behavior are slim. What you see is what you get!

~ James C. Dobson

He’s dying!’ Doctor Cove, one of the ship’s two medical officers told me, looking at his med-scanner as he kneeled at the broken body of the only living Corsair on the black ship. I remember the look on his face as he told me – which seemed more to be puzzlement than actual concern. The man was a Corsair after all, and had injuries I could see, but he was conscious, and none of them looked fatal. But then, I’m no doctor. I never was any good at healing anything – and my job was doing the opposite, and I admit I’m pretty good at it. Always have been.

~ Christina Engela

If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so you can stock up on capri pants for next summer or afford a leather interior in the new SUV. As long as you don't own the responsibility of being blessed with resources so that you can give to those around you, then you can stay focused on getting more for yourself.

~ Craig Groeschel

If you think that your partner has been cheating, then take a look at their will. If a past lover is in there, then it is probable that some form of infidelity has occurred.

~ Steven Magee

You know that when your partner deletes their messages to a past lover after being accused of cheating, then it is likely that they were being unfaithful in some way.

~ Steven Magee

Let me leave you with this thought, written by my father before he died. If you incorporate it into your system of values, it will serve as a worthy guide to the management of your sexual energy: Strong desire is like a river. As long as it flows within the banks of God’s will—be the current strong or weak—all is well. But when it overruns those boundaries and seeks its own channels, then disaster lurks in the rampage below.

~ James C. Dobson

The survivor spoke to us though, or tried to. Mumbling through that matted brown beard of his, pale as death itself. I can’t say now if it was weakness from his wounds or what it was – but we struggled to understand him. In fact we got nothing intelligible from him at all then. He seemed afraid, like any dying man probably would be, but he did seem more terrified than any dying man I’ve seen before – and I’ve seen a few in my time. Let me tell you, Corsair or not, he grabbed whatever hand would hold his, and clenched it so tight his knuckles turned white! He kept fading out as we carried him on the stretcher board the medics brought with them. Looking back, I think he tried to warn us, poor bastard. He tried to tell us to leave him behind and go, but we wouldn’t listen. We thought we were better than the Corsairs, remember? We thought we would be all moral and upright and try to help him. ‘Don’t say I didn’t warn you.’ were the last words he said before losing consciousness. At least, those that we could make out. At the end of it all, he was right – as it turned out, we couldn’t even help ourselves.

~ Christina Engela

When we get down to the very basics of human life we find that we arrive to take a ride on spaceship Earth for several decades and then we leave.

~ Steven Magee

If you want to be different, if you want to be better than normal, then you must live differently.

~ Craig Groeschel

Off this fucking predictable soap opera, this will happen now, then that, then that and you say that you are christian and you start watching series of Turkey people which believe in a very different god so far god of hell - Allah...

~ Deyth Banger

Swearing, d’Angelo entered the elevator. Fortunately, that was also still in order. When he got to the bridge, everything looked pretty ordinary – except for the third body of the day, which was lying spread-eagled on the deck with an almost comical look of surprise on his face. Jang was dead, although d’Angelo couldn’t see the cause, but then, he was no doctor. He sighed dismally. Now he hadn’t a navigator either. Or a crew for that matter.

~ Christina Engela

Today here, then there, then DEAD (ITS A FACT, you can't do anything just take it like this.... or be prepare for the worst. Who is prepared never get suprised easy!).

~ Deyth Banger

First comes the day, then the seconds of the event, then the days which become weeks, then the months, then the years.

~ Deyth Banger

I've heard it said, If the Devil can't make us really bad, then he'll try to make us really busy.

~ Craig Groeschel

You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there.

~ J.d. Salinger

Swallowing, he entered the second code. Then there was a sound like a marble dropping on the floor - bouncing slowly, gradually getting faster as it dropped lower and lower… The thing was toying with him! Where was it? He strained his hearing, but all was again silent. He wanted to shout and scream obscenities at it, but he fought the impulse. It might not really know his location after all - and that would've led it right to him. It must be coming for him! It must be by the door by now, looking for a way in. Time was running out. He hastily keyed in the third and last code.Death the destroyer never is late!

~ Christina Engela

Tracey hurriedly shut the door behind her to prevent the flames that had been licking hungrily at her caboose all the way down the corridor, from following her inside. Then, almost falling into one of the gravity couches, she hurriedly strapped herself into it before punching the emergency release. She hoped the escape system still worked. It did. The explosive dead-bolts fired, shaking the pod loose, dislodging it from the rapidly disintegrating wreck, just about shaking the crap out of her on its bone-jarring way into the great wide open.

~ Christina Engela

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

~ Rebecca Mackinnon

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?

~ Christiane Amanpour

Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.

~ Robert Orben

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

~ Robert H. Schuller

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

~ Erich Fromm

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

~ Khalil Gibran

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

~ Quincy Jones

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

~ Arne Jacobsen

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

~ Charles Babbage

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

~ Gene Wolfe

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

~ Stokely Carmichael

If we extend our senses, then, consequently, we will extend our knowledge. It's really very basic.

~ Neil Harbisson

If leadership is something that is in-your-face, then that is a different type of leadership.

~ Marcia Fudge

First, I prepare. Then I have faith.

~ Joe Namath

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

~ Robert Graves