Son Quotes - Page 115

Faith without works is like a song you can't sing. It's about as useless as a screen door on a submarine.

Strategy is something anyone can learn. But not all coaches take the time to understand a man's personality.

In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

When your reasons to move forward outweigh your excuses for staying put, you will move forward.

The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction so that sinners might be saved with no sacrifice of God’s justice.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

I know I would have had a lot more trophies in my cabinet if I went with him [Sir Alex Ferguson].

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

It's the person who has done nothing who is sure nothing can be done.

Love is the Song of the Soul singing to God.

My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

The greatest gift you can give a person is to wake them up to remind them of who the really are.

The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

The only person to get even with are those who have helped you.

Throughout history governments have been chronically short of revenue. The reason should be clear: unlike you and me, governments do not produce useful goods and services that they can sell on the market; governments, rather than producing and selling services, live parasitically off the market and off society.

I calculated the amount of time I spent with my father during my entire life... the total amount of time I had with him, if you add up the hours, was about two months. My father was a busy man... we had very few opportunities to really sit down and talk as father and son.

Because too many times in life there's just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. So I'm always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come, because they come and go all the time.

I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.

I think it was Tommy who told me, 'When your song is called 'XYZ' or whatever, every line has got to make sense against your title.' He showed me little methods of proving to yourself whether the line belongs, and ways of finding out whether you were able to get more out of a line if you tried.

Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.

Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

If you stay alive for no other reason do it for spite