Isaac of Nineveh Quotes

This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.

Isaac of Nineveh

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• The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Guy
  • Small
  • Technology

• I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Been

• The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Music
  • American
  • Influence

• In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Different
  • Night
  • City

• We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Soul

• When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Free
  • Like
  • Market

• Events are not a matter of chance.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Chance
  • Matter
  • Events

• Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

  

  Fawn M. Brodie
  • Up
  • Like
  • Wall

• If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • People
  • Run
  • Village

• Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Government
  • Economics

• We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Very
  • Fortunate
  • Were

• At Performa in New York, there are a lot of commissions, but Manchester Festival is the only festival where everything is fully produced by the festival.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • New
  • New York
  • Festival

• I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.

  

  Randall Terry
  • People
  • Believe
  • Change

• Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Job
  • Acting
  • Favorite

• A flock is nothing but the put-together of all your past choices.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Together
  • Past
  • Choices

• Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Country
  • Devil

• He wrote stories about everything he saw, and he saw a lot. He walked through the streets of Brooklyn along the water, or leaned against the store windows on Livingston Street watching people hurrying along, making up stories about this one or that one.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • People
  • Up
  • Water

• I don't care how I feel. When they need me, I'll be there. There's no tomorrow; every game counts. If not, I probably would have gone on the DL, gotten it healthy and come back strong. Right now, I don't have that time.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Time
  • Game
  • Strong

• If you join the Boy Scouts without understanding the underlying agendas and biases of the organization, you might grow up to believe that being gay is a bad thing.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Bad

• The likes of Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Tommy Hearns were true champions. There were some incredible fights between us, and I was happy to give them all an opportunity to fight me.

  

  Marvin Hagler
  • True
  • Happy
  • Opportunity

• Don't give up at the first hurdle you encounter.

  

  Alistair Overeem
  • Up

• It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.

  

  Isaac of Nineveh
  • Life
  • Waste
  • Repentance