Honest labor bears a lovely face.
THOMAS DEKKER Were there no women, men might live like gods.
THOMAS DEKKER The great fishpond (the sea).
THOMAS DEKKER [Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
THOMAS DEKKER Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
THOMAS DEKKER Age is like love, it cannot be hid.
THOMAS DEKKER Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand s...
THOMAS DEKKER The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
THOMAS DEKKER Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and ...
THOMAS DEKKER This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
THOMAS DEKKER This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
THOMAS DEKKER A mask of gold hides all deformities.
THOMAS DEKKER Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.
THOMAS DEKKER Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.
THOMAS DEKKER This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
THOMAS DEKKER I cannot win the time trial of the world championships at my age,
THOMAS DEKKER Were there no women, men might live like gods
THOMAS DEKKER A mask of gold hides all deformities
THOMAS DEKKER There are plenty of things that are wrong. Marxists used to use the term "false consciousness," whic...
THOMAS DEKKER O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!
THOMAS DEKKER Age is like love, it cannot be hid
THOMAS DEKKER This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical ...
THOMAS DEKKER To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with
reverence for the...
THOMAS DEKKER Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, / Smiles awake you when you rise. / Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cr...
THOMAS DEKKER [Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
THOMAS DEKKER Add to golden numbers golden numbers.
THOMAS DEKKER To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day withreverence for the oppo...
THOMAS DEKKER My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left ho...
TED DEKKER I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my o...
TED DEKKER For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking ...
TED DEKKER I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by ou...
TED DEKKER I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novel...
TED DEKKER I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I ...
TED DEKKER My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What th...
TED DEKKER All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, ...
TED DEKKER My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's und...
TED DEKKER It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the d...
TED DEKKER My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My r...
TED DEKKER Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, ...
TED DEKKER If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this s...
TED DEKKER I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by ou...
TED DEKKER What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. Th...
TED DEKKER When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle bet...
TED DEKKER My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantas...
TED DEKKER For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking ...
TED DEKKER Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality...
TED DEKKER Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high ...
TED DEKKER While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving bey...
TED DEKKER The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, a...
TED DEKKER My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been ...
TED DEKKER If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and i...
TED DEKKER It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that da...
TED DEKKER Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What...
TED DEKKER My parents have sailed around the world; they know what can happen and that it's not always fun,...
LAURA DEKKER As a 13-year-old girl, it was never my intention to be the center of world news.
LAURA DEKKER Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
LAURA DEKKER It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.
LAURA DEKKER In England, I met a couple who run a children's home. They were very kind and showed me many nic...
LAURA DEKKER Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a f...
LAURA DEKKER All the media are horrible.
LAURA DEKKER I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, ...
LAURA DEKKER I love my parents. But they have their life, and I have mine.
LAURA DEKKER A house is kind of scary.
LAURA DEKKER I'm still not used to the idea of being the youngest circumnavigator.
LAURA DEKKER I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
LAURA DEKKER I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
LAURA DEKKER I grew up sailing in the North Sea.
LAURA DEKKER I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
LAURA DEKKER I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
LAURA DEKKER When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
LAURA DEKKER At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.
LAURA DEKKER I follow my own head. And if I'm determined to do something, then I'll make sure that I make...
LAURA DEKKER As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.
LAURA DEKKER no one wanted to look at the common evils of society. Very few were willing to put aside their own p...
TED DEKKER The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers ...
TED DEKKER God is obviouslt God, and Heaven obviously exsists, and every word spoken here on earth turns heads ...
TED DEKKER Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but...
DESMOND DEKKER Once born into childlike faith, brimming with belief, typical people begin to lose their faith. Soci...
TED DEKKER Pain or perspective, that's the choice.'
. . .
You choose pain - you choose to fight it, ...
TED DEKKER …It’s not that you don’t have the capacity to accept the truth. You don’t want to accept it,...
TED DEKKER Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to j...
TED DEKKER The goal is to have something, even if imperfect, rather than nothing. The other option is to treat ...
CORNELIA DEKKER Assignment to groups will be random, like a coin toss. They won't know and we won't know what group ...
CORNELIA DEKKER ...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the...
TED DEKKER One day, I went to buy something for my dad at the shops, and I heard a song by Nat King Cole called...
DESMOND DEKKER Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming franticall...
TED DEKKER Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in...
TED DEKKER God is with me. Jesus is near. The Spirit is greater than my fear.
TED DEKKER Our lives hang in the balance of unpredictable situations. One minute you're driving down the road w...
TED DEKKER Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It i...
TED DEKKER Immanuel, God with us-that He would leave the spiritual realm and be present in the flesh and blood ...
TED DEKKER There’s a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It’s important to be ...
TED DEKKER Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates.
TED DEKKER The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.
TED DEKKER Every breathing soul longs to overcome.
TED DEKKER Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper t...
TED DEKKER We are doing it as fast as we can to provide results as quickly as possible so people can make decis...
CORNELIA DEKKER The point is, we were created to love beauty. We love beauty because Elyon loves beaut...
TED DEKKER I now embrace the pleasures of this life with as much or more passion as I did before, but I do so w...
TED DEKKER The problem of pain is not a nail in the coffin of Christianity; it is a crowbar that jerks the lid ...
TED DEKKER The incomparable great power we have as believers is tied up in hope. Lose the hope and lose the pow...
TED DEKKER The Gospels and the Epistles say next to nothing about emotional stability or midlife crises or a ba...
TED DEKKER Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestl...
TED DEKKER We Christian writers must paint evil with the blackest of brushes, not to sow fear, but to call out ...
TED DEKKER Everyone is a lonely victim of life's complexity.
TED DEKKER He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could rea...
TED DEKKER When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and ...
MICKALENE THOMAS The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodie...
THOMAS HOBBES Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or ev...
THOMAS SOWELL Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and th...
THOMAS BECKET I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible wo...
THOMAS SCHLAMME A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
THOMAS PAINE If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
THOMAS PAINE I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll ...
THOMAS LYNCH Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
THOMAS HARRIS It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on wh...
CLARENCE THOMAS Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
THOMAS HOBBES Love and a red rose can't be hid.
THOMAS HOLCROFT Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the populatio...
THOMAS SOWELL One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonor...
THOMAS SOWELL The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't t...
THOMAS SOWELL Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of ...
THOMAS SOWELL The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evi...
THOMAS SOWELL That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
THOMAS PAINE The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
THOMAS PAINE I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, lovi...
THOMAS PAINE Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting ...
THOMAS PAINE An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
THOMAS PAINE These are the times that try men's souls.
THOMAS PAINE What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value...
THOMAS PAINE Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
THOMAS PAINE There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is ...
THOMAS HOBBES No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
THOMAS HOBBES Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
THOMAS HOBBES Words are the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBES I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after pow...
THOMAS HOBBES Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them w...
THOMAS AQUINAS God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
THOMAS AQUINAS How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
THOMAS AQUINAS If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the...
THOMAS AQUINAS It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall l...
THOMAS AQUINAS The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of...
THOMAS AQUINAS Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the pers...
THOMAS AQUINAS Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
THOMAS AQUINAS The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
THOMAS PAINE An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
THOMAS JEFFERSON If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a...
IRWIN THOMAS I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
IRWIN THOMAS I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
IRWIN THOMAS I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
IRWIN THOMAS People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'
IRWIN THOMAS I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get...
IRWIN THOMAS I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
IRWIN THOMAS Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
IRWIN THOMAS My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pen...
IRWIN THOMAS When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thi...
IRWIN THOMAS I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work.
ISAIAH THOMAS Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.
ISAIAH THOMAS All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the K...
ISAIAH THOMAS I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.
ISAIAH THOMAS We decided to go the way of trading and getting younger players.
ISAIAH THOMAS We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the ...
ISAIAH THOMAS It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into...
ISAIAH THOMAS My thought has always been completion. Maybe you have to rebound better, shoot better, hit free thro...
ISAIAH THOMAS The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run t...
ISAIAH THOMAS It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys ...
ISAIAH THOMAS Everybody wants to be perfect.
ISAIAH THOMAS You're always at war with the guy on the other bench. You pick up their patterns. That's wha...
ISAIAH THOMAS I love what I'm doing.
ISAIAH THOMAS You have to develop your whole game to completion.
ISAIAH THOMAS It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?
ISAIAH THOMAS It's hard to get people to overcome the thought that they have to take care of themselves first....
ISAIAH THOMAS My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.
ISAIAH THOMAS Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
THOMAS PAINE Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hen...
THOMAS SOWELL A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
THOMAS JEFFERSON There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
THOMAS AQUINAS I always get more applause than votes.
NORMAN THOMAS To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is...
NORMAN THOMAS Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara...
NORMAN THOMAS If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
NORMAN THOMAS I walk where I choose to walk.
NORMAN THOMAS Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.
THOMAS PEREZ The real minimum wage is zero.
THOMAS SOWELL Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it ...
THOMAS PEREZ Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not,...
THOMAS SOWELL The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the p...
THOMAS HOBBES You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed wi...
THOMAS TRAHERNE The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be sa...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
THOMAS JEFFERSON We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
THOMAS JEFFERSON There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
THOMAS JEFFERSON When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Euro...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
THOMAS JEFFERSON For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their be...
THOMAS JEFFERSON If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON