“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.”
(Jane Austen)
I’ve been saving this quote all summer waiting for the right time to use it, and our recent (tied) record of 30 days in a row with temperatures at or above 90 degrees certainly makes it appropriate, not to mention several individual day records with temperatures over 100.
“And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by from this day until the ending of the world but we in it shall be remembered. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers, For he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother, Be he ne’er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition, and gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves acursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whilst any speaks, that fought with us upon St. Crispin’s day!”
(from the movie “Henry V”)
One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!”
But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.” And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
Luke 23:39-43 (ESV)
“You need the willingness to fail all the time. You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don’t work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work.”
(John Backus discussing software development)
“If I stand, let me stand on the promise that you will pull me through,
and if I can’t let me fall on the grace that first brought me to you.
If I sing, let me sing for the joy that has born in me things songs,
and if I weep let it be as a man who is longing for his home.”
(from “If I Stand” by Rich Mullins)
“If might is right, then love has no place in the world. It may be so, it may be so. But I don’t have the strength to live in a world like that.”
(from the movie “The Mission”)
“If you stare at someone long enough, you discover their humanity.”
(from the movie “As Good As It Gets”)
“I like to look for things no one else catches. I hate the way drivers never look at the road in old movies.”
(from the movie “Amelie”)
“Lord I groan, Lord I kneel
I’m cryin’ out for something real
‘Cause I know deep in my soul
There must be more
Lord I’m tired, yes I’m weak
I need your power to work in me
But I can’t let go, I keep hanging on
There must be more”
(from “There Must Be More” by David Ruis)
“Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above,
Would drain the ocean dry.
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.
O love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure
The saints’ and angels’ song.”
(from “The Love Of God” by Frederick Lehman)