We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phone, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, because in those moments we might actually have to face up to who we really are.

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We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phones, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence,...
JEFFERSON BETHKE

I hear a lot of people say that the fear of death and the fear of public speaking are two of the mai...
JEFFERSON BETHKE

All of a sudden, we’ve lost a lot of control,’ he said. ‘We can’t turn off our internet; we ...
STEVE WOZNIAK Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... We can’t turn our true selves off and on situationally and expect them to carry and sustain us. Ra...
S. KELLEY HARRELL

We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going...
BRENE BROWN It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL

Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
E.M. FORSTER It's a different position every week and thank God it was our turn to step up. We emphasized trying ...
BEN WATSON

We want to extend an invitation to healing, ... Turn off CNN and turn on the light in your own heart...
CARLOS SANTANA You're the one who has to turn off the cell phone, who has to turn off the pager. But you can't seem...
MIKE STAVER We know our roles. Our roles are to go out there and turn it up. We look forward to it. I mean, we c...
JUSTIN BERRY The more we see that others are well-off when we refuse to adapt with our own crisis.
JECON B. NADELA We have to turn it around quickly because it will be real hard to get to where we want with a 1-2 re...
GREG BROWN

What will happen if we go to 0 day?
...

Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER We've had about nine days off and we have a virus going around on the team, so some of our starters ...
JEFF NEWHALL

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN You turn me on, and then you turn me off the most.
SHANNY We do not turn signals off and on.
FRED DROES In my first courtroom scene, William [Shatner] had one of those giant monologues [creator] David Kel...
JULIE BOWEN We took the whole weekend off which was really nice. We really needed those couple of days off to le...
KRISTEN PALOMBO When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we're really doing is just switching off ...
BRIAN ENO We laid off of him. He buried 'em in our face.
ZACH WALDHER We will turn the corner soon and start getting some wins, and our hard work will start paying off.
EDDIE POPE I turn on the TV and I have to turn it off because it's all bad news, ... I really feel like I can't...
RAY THOMPSON We could not have launched Causes without Facebook Platform, providing real identity and real friend...
JOE GREEN We just lost the front end coming off Turn 4. I'm not really sure if a tire went down or what. The c...
DENNY HAMLIN We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL But I think our humour is exactly the same today. Only, we've made rules now. We've said we ...
JENNIFER SAUNDERS So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Our timing is really off right now. We couldn't get anything going all day and Monte really wasn't i...
BRANDON HUSSEY We doubt that the markets are going to take off here. I think we will need more evidence that in fac...
CHRISTINE CALLIES The semiconductor business is very cyclical. But we really believe that you can't turn the spigot on...
ALLYSON PEERMAN Are we taking the drunken drivers off the road only to turn them into drunken pedestrians?
LAWRENCE S. HARRIS Bad smells made her angry, they were a personal affront.
LOUISE ERDRICH Turn off the radio, TV, DVD, iPod, computer and cell phone. Then, listen.
GINA GREENLEE It's stupid little stuff: 'Somebody moved my towel!' But everybody knows what it's really about. We ...
BECKY BENELLI I would hate for people to lose their jobs just because we couldn't remember to turn off the lights ...
DEDEE DELONGPRE We'll find 'em, ... They're in this drainage somewhere. We might have to hike our a's off, but we'll...
AARON ROBINSON We might be where we need to be [for now]. The kids are playing well. Our offense is off to a good s...
JEFF HERRON One guy whose phone was programmed for the theme song from 'The Sting' was getting calls every five ...
BRUCE PATTERSON We got off to a rough start up there and we had to get off to a good start. We got a lead kept our l...
JASON KIDD We are very strong in some events and we have so many swimmers. I'm just hoping that our depth pays ...
BRIAN HOLM I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera ...
DAVID ZUCKER We are going to individually visit all of those houses to shut off the gas meters and then when the ...
CAROLINE ALLEN We were really hoping to win and pull an upset because we?re a lot better than we were back in Decem...
LISA DEHAAN I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.
KAREN FINERMAN Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK We have sacrificed a great deal for this nation, and now to turn their back on us and cut us off wou...
BENNY ROUSSELLE We must constantly remind ourselves that we are the image and likeness of God
SOTONYE ANGA He can really go the distance, and that's something you like to see in pitchers. Our pitching staff ...
JAY STONE We often get off the path and give up when we are just one step away from our victory
SUNDAY ADELAJA We monitor it at home from our computers. If something breaks down, we get a phone call, log on, and...
GEORGE FERGUSON What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar...
T.J. KLUNE I love this team. Once we turn on the second gear we're off to the races. We can play with anybody i...
CHRIS MCCRAY The name change is actually catching up. But we are not ignoring the Red Hills. We are still working...
LANE GREEN No Difference

Small as a peanut,
Big as a giant,
We're all the same size
W...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba...
DEYTH BANGER I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham...
JERRY B. JENKINS We did what we had to do. We had our guys really blocking, the guys up front really came off the bal...
DENTON FOX People might not have shoes but they have a cell phone. We can turn that phone into a bank in your p...
BRIAN RICHARDSON This was the best rally we had in years. We tried to increase our visibility, and it really paid off...
KATHY TOTOKI I had panels - roundtables in the district - and the stories that were told are really difficult to ...
SANDER LEVIN We rarely turn on the lights in the office because we have our skylights.
EDDIE ESTRADA Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limi...
GRETCHEN RUBIN ...nobody was ever really ready to turn off their mother's machine, no matter what they thought; to ...
FANNIE FLAGG See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART We fed off our fans and we fed off each other.
TROT NIXON He began to prefer talking on the phone to actually getting together with someone, preferred the bod...
LORRIE MOORE We will put ourselves in better position to have long-term success if we take a year off. We have th...
MARK MCGUIRE We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
ABHISHEK KUMAR We did it. Now it's your turn, ... We promised a clear cut-off with the past. We are on that way.
MIROLJUB LABUS You’re beautiful, just the way you are. Shine on. And dare anyone to turn off the lights.
MANDY HALE We have to learn the art of stopping - stopping our thinking, our habit energies, our forgetfulness,...
THICH NHAT HANH We haven't been very disciplined. We have to take our stick off guys. That's just about learning. Fi...
JOEL KWIATKOWSKI Every waking moments we talk to ourselves about the things we experience. Our self-talk, the thought...
JOHN LEMBO The weird thing about metal fans is we're all so maladjusted in a lot of ways. We're individ...
COREY TAYLOR We are celebrating every moment with our beautiful boy, we just can't take our eyes off him.
ROD STEWART We turn off the TV, video games and computer - except for homework - during the week. The TV's r...
CANDACE CAMERON BURE We got to a point where we tied it up and thought we were going to turn the corner, and Georgia Stat...
KYRA KAYLOR You don't put something in people's bodies' to turn something on until you know how to turn it off.
MICHAEL GOODYEAR I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Everybody wants to cut off the limb to to deal with the problem. You can’t just keep cutting off l...
BOBBY F. KIMBROUGH JR. The third quarter we normally come out to play because we really want it, and that's the time when a...
BRIAN BILLINGS When we trust God by taking our hands off our work, what we give up through Sabbath ultimately benef...
SHELLY MILLER We are off to a good start and we are playing some inspired tennis. We just need to continue to impr...
MATT BROWN We rolled (against Christian Fellowship Academy). When the momentum is in our favor we are an extrem...
ALLISON SPENCE We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we ...
MICHAEL PATRICK KING There are always going to be people who refuse to leave. We hope they don't turn into casualties.
MARIANA LECKNER We had ten shots in the first half of the game. We just couldn't seem to finish off our goals.
CINDY SOLIC people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our most ordinary moments. They’re with us i...
CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE We've been off to such slow starts, and we tried to make that a point of emphasis to our kids: we ha...
DAWN SEILER Newman said. ''But he just never was able to walk away with it. I got back underneath him coming off...
TONY STEWART Through our trials and tribulations, our stint in the wilderness of our lives, if you will, we come ...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Through our trials and tribulations, our stint in the wilderness of our lives, if you will, we come ...
AULIQ-ICE In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions ...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON The earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil s...
THOMAS JEFFERSON And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON There exists indeed an opposition to it [building of UVA, Jefferson's secular college] by the...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I agree with yours of the 22d that a professorship of Theology should have no place in our instit...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from th...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to p...
THOMAS JEFFERSON If you want something you've never had
You must be willing to do something you've never done.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good gener...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of...
THOMAS JEFFERSON A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers w...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you w...
THOMAS JEFFERSON To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbeliev...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work Plato's R...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he...
THOMAS JEFFERSON In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by renderi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phone, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, because in those moments we might actually have to face up to who we really are.

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