Did you know that, pound for pound, the moose is the leanest ruminant on Earth? It's true. Moose...
MALLORY ORTBERG My history teacher could make us feel like he was imparting rare gossip to us when he was talking ab...
MALLORY ORTBERG I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them un...
MALLORY ORTBERG A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it wr...
MALLORY ORTBERG It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.
MALLORY ORTBERG I spent the first 22 years of my life absorbing everything, like a big disgusting cell, and now I...
MALLORY ORTBERG I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more...
MALLORY ORTBERG Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
MALLORY ORTBERG Usually my writing is very over the top and bombastic and very, like, 'I'm amazing! Look at ...
MALLORY ORTBERG I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could...
MALLORY ORTBERG I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.
MALLORY ORTBERG With a few exceptions, birds are not to be trusted; it is not normal to have such soft, vulnerable b...
MALLORY ORTBERG In my final year of attending a Christian sports camp in rural Missouri, the year before I started h...
MALLORY ORTBERG I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.
MALLORY ORTBERG There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
MALLORY ORTBERG It's so, so awful for my entire body and my spine and my hands, and I have a perfectly good desk...
MALLORY ORTBERG When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I d...
MALLORY ORTBERG It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
MALLORY ORTBERG In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting...
MALLORY ORTBERG I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a ...
MALLORY ORTBERG I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.
MALLORY ORTBERG Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness ...
MALLORY ORTBERG My credentials, briefly: I no longer go to church or believe in God, but I can still name every one ...
MALLORY ORTBERG My parents are both pastors. In the '80s and '90s in the mainstream Christian world, it was ...
MALLORY ORTBERG The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off the...
MALLORY ORTBERG Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.
MALLORY ORTBERG Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a ...
JOHN ORTBERG Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the r...
JOHN ORTBERG Gratitude is what we radiate when we experience grace, and the soul was made to run on grace the way...
JOHN ORTBERG Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
JOHN ORTBERG When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisf...
JOHN ORTBERG At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection.
JOHN ORTBERG Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. I...
JOHN ORTBERG Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in...
JOHN ORTBERG Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is...
JOHN ORTBERG From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different fun...
JOHN ORTBERG 'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxie...
JOHN ORTBERG Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outw...
JOHN ORTBERG Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple m...
JOHN ORTBERG The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist ...
JOHN ORTBERG For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become s...
JOHN ORTBERG Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our mind...
JOHN ORTBERG There are dozens of references to God in the Scriptures for every one to the figure of Satan. This r...
JOHN ORTBERG There are no clear boundary lines between what is physiological, what is psychological, and what is ...
JOHN ORTBERG God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them ...
JOHN ORTBERG I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy eno...
JOHN ORTBERG My wife is one of the most extroverted people I know. She could out-talk Oprah and Joyce Meyer simul...
JOHN ORTBERG Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot ...
JOHN ORTBERG Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
JOHN ORTBERG We do not need answers or formulas to minister in crisis.
JOHN ORTBERG Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the b...
JOHN ORTBERG Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of ...
JOHN ORTBERG We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don't. This pain is intensified fo...
JOHN ORTBERG In community, we discover who we really are and how much transformation we still require. This is wh...
JOHN ORTBERG I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many pe...
JOHN ORTBERG We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's wor...
JOHN ORTBERG Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure ou...
JOHN ORTBERG One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self...
JOHN ORTBERG Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and de...
JOHN ORTBERG Some leaders are not intimidated by opposition; they actually thrive on it. It wakes them up. It ene...
JOHN ORTBERG Learning something new is a fabulous way to be refreshed. When work can grind you down, something ab...
JOHN ORTBERG The New Testament doesn't present Jesus as a single man to cover up his humanity. It presents hi...
JOHN ORTBERG If you can't do great things, JOHN ORTBERG This was the great irony of his day: The 'righteous' were more damaged by their righteousness than t...
JOHN ORTBERG Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the d...
JOHN ORTBERG I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest g...
JOHN ORTBERG As much as we complain about it, though, there's part of us that is drawn to a hurried life. It ...
JOHN ORTBERG I am a political junkie. During a presidential campaign, I will often buy a couple of newspapers a d...
JOHN ORTBERG Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
JOHN ORTBERG The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because o...
JOHN ORTBERG This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests,...
JOHN ORTBERG Women are the first witnesses to the resurrection and pillars of the early church.
JOHN ORTBERG Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and ...
JOHN ORTBERG God's great, holy joke about the messiah complex is this: Every human being who has ever lived has s...
JOHN ORTBERG Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, ...
JOHN ORTBERG A simple way to address hidden curriculum issues is to spend time talking with staff and key leaders...
JOHN ORTBERG The only true and lasting inspiration for life is genuine love for God, and submitted gratitude that...
JOHN ORTBERG I wrote 'Soul Keeping' because we are taught more about how to care for our cars than how to...
JOHN ORTBERG I need an inspiration that is grounded in reality while thoroughly transcendent.
JOHN ORTBERG I have always heard that you need to give yourself a long time to unplug when you do a sabbatical. I...
JOHN ORTBERG Scratch the surface of any cynic, and you will find a wounded idealist underneath. Because of previo...
JOHN ORTBERG Even you can’t tell yourself how to change, because you didn’t create you. To love someone is to...
JOHN ORTBERG I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.
MALLORY JANSEN Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all ...
MALLORY JANSEN It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in any...
MALLORY JANSEN Most days, I still feel like I need to be wearing mascara, eyeliner, have my eyebrows done, have on ...
MALLORY JANSEN If I'm going to the gym or the shops to get food, then I don't need to do anything - I'l...
MALLORY JANSEN I was doing those roles on ABC Family late in the year, and at the same time, I was auditioning for ...
MALLORY JANSEN I used to know all the lyrics to all the songs from 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
MALLORY JANSEN Jimmy Grants is my first stop every time I go home to Australia. They make the best souvlakis you ha...
MALLORY JANSEN You honestly can't go wrong with All Saints. I live in their leather!
MALLORY JANSEN I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination an...
MALLORY JANSEN Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.
MALLORY JANSEN I think every woman in their life wants to give a good face smack.
MALLORY JANSEN To be honest, I grew up with Alan Menken's music.
MALLORY JANSEN I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me ...
MALLORY JANSEN I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how differe...
MALLORY JANSEN My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real me...
MALLORY JANSEN Rome is possibly my favorite city in the world. I have such fond memories there - most of them food ...
MALLORY JANSEN I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.
MALLORY JANSEN Long hair, for me, is actually less maintenance. I went through a phase when I was kid where I wante...
MALLORY JANSEN The fundamental goal of Republicans and Democrats is to get themselves re-elected.
MALLORY FACTOR New York is not going to be a foreign place to me. They didn't revoke my visa.
MALLORY FACTOR The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to ...
GEORGE MALLORY Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.
PAUL MALLORY The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this, What is the use of cli...
GEORGE MALLORY My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.
MALLORY JANSEN Growing up, I was in all the musicals and everything... I'd come home from school and bash out a...
MALLORY JANSEN I don't think it's very realistic to not talk. When you're really at a birth, and you can see a woma...
MALLORY MENSAH How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to b...
GEORGE MALLORY Everywhere I went, my cleavage followed. But I learned I am not my cleavage.
CAROLE MALLORY Guys who know how to use a blowdryer... Their hair is too long!
MALLORY HOPKINS He's reaching out to all of us. He may not be winning converts, but he's making gains.
MALLORY FACTOR The critical goals of solid internal controls and transparent financial reporting are better achieve...
MALLORY FACTOR Enforcement efforts should focus on aggressive prosecution of bad actors under existing anti-fraud l...
MALLORY FACTOR The board is insulated in a wide range from any control from presidential oversight, from Congress.
MALLORY FACTOR The purchase price represents a nearly 50 percent premium above the company's stock price from the b...
MALLORY FACTOR Our board is not compensated and not staffed. We've never taken $1 in expenses. We look at this as p...
MALLORY FACTOR After completing our own due diligence, we voted both offers down unanimously, ... fair.
MALLORY FACTOR By pushing grand juries to issue politically motivated indictments of prominent Republicans, Ronnie ...
MALLORY FACTOR Since the ballot box doesn't give the liberals the results they want anymore, they have turned to th...
MALLORY FACTOR It's definitely one of the better programs in the nation because it focuses on empowerment. The wome...
MALLORY DECKARD It can be bright orange to dark purple to green.
MARK MALLORY He had little respect for anyone who was not willing to put in the effort required to survive and th...
ANNE MALLORY I don't think there's any question that this offense is a little more opened up than the way (Indian...
BILL MALLORY What you're seeing is a little more balanced attack than we've seen in the past.
BILL MALLORY I don't know how else you could do it better than we are.
BILL MALLORY I had a chance to be on the Harris poll. I was approached for (the Master Coaches) first. I like it....
BILL MALLORY Boy, did you send me a hell of a football player. This kid's a card or two short of a full deck, but...
BILL MALLORY Glen is going to line up and come after you with the run game and change up with the pass. He's goin...
BILL MALLORY To instill the values for the culture was and is the responsibility of the leadership, and staff ali...
SUE MALLORY I could never distrust him.
MALLORY FACTOR It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
GEORGE MALLORY Really it seeks to challenge the basic assumptions about violence against women.
MALLORY DECKARD For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors,...
GEORGE MALLORY Because it's there.
GEORGE MALLORY The PCAOB is an unaccountable, unconstitutional regulatory body. It's the poster child for the dange...
MALLORY FACTOR My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.
GEORGE MALLORY Life is short.
Smile while you still have teeth.
MALLORY HOPKINS So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this ...
GEORGE MALLORY That's a hell of a long flight.
MARK MALLORY I am very disappointed that David decided to break Ohio's election laws. But I think that voters can...
MARK MALLORY The voters have clearly said they want to talk about consensus-building and collaborative leadership...
MARK MALLORY If I had to ballpark it, I would say around 10 percent of business today would be pre-listing inspec...
MALLORY ANDERSON I always imagined spending my senior year with my friends that I have been in school with for the la...
MALLORY COMEAUX I couldn't have found a better family.
MALLORY COMEAUX It didn't feel real, getting makeup done and talking to Hillary Duff.
MALLORY COMEAUX We just keep shooting ourselves in the foot. There's no excuse. We have a pitcher who threw a good g...
MALLORY DENHAM We've got speed on the bases with Englert leading off.
MALLORY DENHAM This is a really great thing that they do.
MALLORY DECKARD When it comes down to it, it's just a time you are trying to beat, no matter whose it is. Hopefully ...
MALLORY DIETRICH I hope we can (come back). Our goal as a team was to win the gold. I wanted to do better and we also...
MALLORY DIETRICH This means that we are keeping the tradition and it proves that when we come together we can achieve...
MALLORY DIETRICH My major goal for this year is to have Oakland Catholic win the state again. I think my times are ge...
MALLORY DIETRICH I think it would be anyone's goal to try to win them both. I've been working hard all year. I don't ...
MALLORY DIETRICH If a woman feels safe and comfortable and supported, it's amazing what she can do.
MALLORY MENSAH You'd be surprised how many noises you hear from women they'd never even think would come from them....
MALLORY MENSAH (Brittany) is real funny, loud and outgoing. She can make you laugh to get you in a good mood for yo...
MALLORY VOELKER We feel really prepared; we had a lot of tough matches this past weekend, which I think is going to ...
MALLORY VOELKER I think being on our home court, having more fans here and everything like that will be a huge benef...
MALLORY VOELKER I think everyone played pretty well today. Our team lost a close one last year, so we wanted to come...
MALLORY VOELKER It's nice that we've all been together dancing from the beginning of the year.
MALLORY VANCE The routine is awesome. We get a good reaction from the crowd.
MALLORY VANCE It's going to be great if we can get that ring. We want to bring that gold ball back.
MALLORY SCOTT It feels really good. We hope that the third time is a charm.
MALLORY SCOTT I thought she had caught it and then I looked back at her and saw she was going to throw it to first...
MALLORY RUHL These are two big wins for us. We really needed to have some momentum going into the Dana game becau...
MALLORY RUHL My rear end never looked better. They're the best jeans ever.
MALLORY ROSS There are things here for plus-sizes, but it's hard to find trendy things. It's easy to find (standa...
MALLORY ROSS Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment
PAUL MALLORY Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. W...
JOHN ORTBERG JR. To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one ...
JOHN ORTBERG JR. Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Sto...
JOHN ORTBERG JR. What makes a man's 80 year-old Irish uncle skip like a little boy? "Me Father is very fond of me!
JOHN ORTBERG JR. Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce...
JOHN ORTBERG JR. The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of th...
JOHN ORTBERG JR. We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a dim...
JOHN ORTBERG JR. Going to the mountains is going home.
GEORGE LEIGH MALLORY Because it's there.
GEORGE LEIGH MALLORY We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron. We shall no...
GEORGE LEIGH MALLORY What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not...
GEORGE LEIGH MALLORY I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal wo...
GEORGE LEIGH MALLORY The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence...
GEORGE LEIGH MALLORY The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of cli...
GEORGE LEIGH MALLORY The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to ...
GEORGE LEIGH MALLORY [Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest?] Because it's there.
GEORGE LEIGH MALLORY We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.
GEORGE LEIGH MALLORY