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Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence.


Craig D. Lounsbrough

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LAURA MONCUR All age is a kind of tiredness, I think. When you’re young, the lines never show. Every morning yo...
AMANDA CRAIG Craig is young and ambitious.
CRAIG BREWSTER Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY The spoken word is ephemeral. The written word, eternal. A symphony, timeless.
A.E. SAMAAN As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
DAVY JONES Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER Romance is possible between two people at any age! I love feeling young and acting young as I age.
KIM ALEXIS Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of l...
J.M. COETZEE Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
RONALD REAGAN Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS) Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never comple...
MARILYN MONROE As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness o...
CARL JUNG I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth th...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we w...
JOHN ASTIN She was astonishingly beautiful as a young woman. She was the Princess Diana of her age,
BEN PIMLOTT I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER I'd never thought about acting as a job. I was an engineer; I was in science and technology. I l...
ATO ESSANDOH As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
KAJOL I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be.
DAVID DOBKIN And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS Men, we don't get much, as far as holidays go - Father's Day.
DMX The Spirit is as operative today in communicating the gospel to all who seek the truth as it was on ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.
WALT DISNEY COMPANY Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.
WALT DISNEY I used to panic and get rattled when I was young, but as I've got older, I've started litera...
JOANNA LUMLEY The truth of history lies simultaneously in the substratum of created existence (since all beings ar...
JOHN D. ZIZOULAS To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we...
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD I'd never been published when I was young.
JACK VANCE As we age, we lose the ability to convert vitamin D into its usable form, so elderly people are at g...
LONA SANDON Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Somet...
MICHAEL CADNUM The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existe...
WILLIAM JAMES 'Bambi' is an amazing film, and when you watch it today, it's just as beautiful. It'...
JOHN LASSETER No one will presumably ever be able to prove or disprove such fundamental religious principles as th...
STEPHEN KINZER Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.
POPE FRANCIS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself t...
MARGARET MITCHELL To me, she was as good a singer as Aretha Franklin in her own way, and completely timeless.
ELTON JOHN Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He beca...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
ALBERT J. NOCK Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
DAVID KOECHNER Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And tune his merry note,
Unto the ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Inherited Will, The Destiny of the Age, and The Dreams of the People. As long as people continue to ...
EIICHIRō ODA As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of t...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN He slumped down in the command seat and shut off the irritating alarm. He sighed again. It seemed to...
CHRISTINA ENGELA As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, al...
YAHYA JAMMEH "Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever." — Walt Disney
WALT DISNEY Vancouver is an amazing city and luckily, growing up in the Seattle area, I was able to immerse myse...
APOLO OHNO The thing was, at a young age, my mom and my grandma always tried to keep me out of the streets as m...
BIG SEAN What hurts the most is his age — how young he was. He was maturing into a terrific young man. A ver...
EDWARD ROMERO I'm at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.
REX HARRISON At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
BAZ LUHRMANN There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space an...
ROD SERLING There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space an...
ROD STERLING And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.
BIBLE Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.
JOHN HODGMAN Mark was always a very determined young man. He was one of those naturals that came into class and a...
BILL MERCER I do have my own personal convictions and values, and I live by those. But as an artist, as a portra...
PLATON I can remember getting rejected systematically by casting directors as a young kid. I felt like the ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO A man -- I let the truth out --
Who's had almost every tooth out,
Cannot sing as once he san...
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY The truth is a labyrinth. Secrets are truths as sharp as razors ready to spread like a virus—ready...
ADDISON MOORE Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, trea...
STEPHEN COVEY You mean old books?"

"Stories written before space travel but about space travel."
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PHILIP K. DICK As Craig Littlepage apparently pointed out, that slate is wiped clean.
DOUG ELGIN When I was young, with my brothers, we'd make movies all the time, and that was never scripted.
WYATT RUSSELL Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth i...
G. W. F. HEGEL I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d...
CHANNING TATUM Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
HERMANN HESSE There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has alrea...
KATHY IRELAND As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
GARRY TRUDEAU As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes.
SASHA LANE A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
JOYCE MEYER Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
DICK VAN DYKE Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
JEF RASKIN As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.
JON BATISTE As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.
TROY BROWN That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.
DAVE MADDEN Never say, "O Lord, I am a miserable sinner." Who will help you? You are the help of the universe. W...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd pa...
EDMUND WHITE If you say something as if it were, that isn't, is it considered a lie, or speaking it into existenc...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always sp...
MARCEL DUCHAMP With gamblers, it's never enough. You keep thinking on a conscious level that the prize is whate...
JASON GEDRICK In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on ...
DR. DRE We miss Craig more every day. We loved Craig. He's been a wonderful son, husband, father and brother...
ANDREA MACY I had a bunch of young kids who lifted (as) exhibitions and set personal records. It was a pretty re...
GORDON ROBERTS The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Truth to me was dead, God had never lived, life was full of pain, and death was the end of life. As ...
ALICIA BRITT CHOLE I've tattooed as young as 18 and the oldest was 83-years-old. Tattoos used to be young fad or a mili...
DENNIS GUINN I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've on...
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CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The greatest dividends in life are those that we give away.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH My heart says, ‘This way.’ The world says, ‘That way.’ God says, ‘I am the Way.’ And if ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If I look closely, my failures are less about my inadequacies and more about the fact that I channel...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If truth is relative, then it’s cousin is anarchy.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they ar...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Raw power without Godly obedience is a long walk off a short conscience.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Only God understands how incredibly far we’ve fallen, and only God understands how incredibly far ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If we’re honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH What would behoove me to instantly declare God not to be God unless He followed my script in some te...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH What in the world would ever lead to me believe that life is a series of opportunities that are read...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room f...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in t...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I can attempt to stay on the fence. However, the problem is that the fence is a figment of my fear n...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I feign fullness, but in reality I am achingly empty. And it is because I too often sit at the table...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Until I realize that it’s all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH To deny the battle is unwise. To believe that I can fight it without God is insane. To actually do s...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I have forged many things that I believe to be things of great beauty. Yet if God is not a part of t...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than no...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latte...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The extent of God’s grace always eclipses the extent of my grotesqueness. Therefore, I can never b...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The greatest prayers that I could ever utter come from the heart. And when I pray that way, I rarely...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If I am brave enough to stand against those who have been groomed by fear, I will recognize that whe...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Where am I?” you ask. Where you are is where the things you’ve denied worshipping have taken you...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Possibly the most debilitating deception of all is to create a god of my own making, fool myself int...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Why am I always lost in the woods?” I yell at the top of my voice! And if I choose to settle down ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If my decisions constantly heed the voice of the world, I can be completely assured that I’m going...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Imagination envisions what could be. Reality states what is. And when my journey is shaped by one of...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If I’m conceited enough to believe I’m invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thi...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the places where life stores i...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH We can live out our lives, and in the end realize that we never really ‘lived’ a day in our live...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH No person, collection of people, institution, government or organization of any kind can in any way ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH At the end, a journey based on my imagination will leave me imagining that I should have engaged the...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it’s adhering to our scripts or not.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Prayer is knowing that what I ask for is always far bigger than what I could ever articulate, but it...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH We can only get to God through God. Every other possible avenue is a dead-end before it even starts.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Despite my best effort to make myself as large as absolutely possible, life will always be larger th...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If your dream doesn't scare you, it's not big enough.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The legacy I leave will be unimaginably enhanced by the legacies I received. Therefore, I must be wi...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH We have the power of the pen to write the next chapter, and the privilege to author the page in what...
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