Evan Esar Quotes

The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple.

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• I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • May
  • Business

• Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Mind
  • She
  • Doing

• The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Done
  • Leave
  • Brainy

• I am neither the handsomest nor the richest nor the most powerful, but I've had the greatest women in the world.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • World
  • Women
  • Powerful

• Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Mind
  • Success
  • Desire

• Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Noise

• When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?

  

  Idries Shah
  • Why
  • Door
  • Fortune

• Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Learn
  • Try
  • Humility

• They did some things early on in there that threw us some curve balls. On defense, they did a real good coaching job on that part. We had to kind of struggle to get things going again, but we did control the ball, which is a big deal.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Real
  • Job

• Yes, we should consider ways to address the deficit and bring real, direct relief to the gulf region, ... but we must not lose sight of maintaining the infrastructure that supports our economy and way of life.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Life
  • Real
  • Economy

• Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Life
  • Reason
  • Mysterious

• The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Christian Church
  • Cults
  • Encyclopedia

• Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Monster
  • Forms
  • Detected

• I have no family to take care of.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Family
  • Care
  • Take Care

• I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.

  

  Howard Stern
  • Seems
  • Lightning
  • Irritated

• Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to think of the needs of others. But I have found that if, instead of praying for my own comfort and satisfaction, I ask the Lord to enable me to give to others, an amazing thing often happens - I find my own needs wonderfully met. Refreshment comes in ways I would never have thought of, both for others, and then, incidentally, for myself.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Needs
  • Praying
  • Satisfaction

• Narrow all your interests until the attitude of mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Jesus

• Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Happiness

• The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple.

  

  Evan Esar
  • The Lord
  • Take Care
  • Lightning