Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down. Bill Vaughan More Quotes by Bill Vaughan More Quotes From Bill Vaughan Jesus will brush aside your inabilities. Bill Vaughan brushes inability jesus Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life. Bill Vaughan ongoing transformation salvation The best that can be said of you is that you got saved. Bill Vaughan saved salvation said Your thoughts are making you. Bill Vaughan There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection. Bill Vaughan pessimistic resurrection notes One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin. If it were impossible at times not to note their own growth in grace, it were impossible also to forget that it was all by His power. If they could be persuaded to admit their progress and talk of it at all, the language of their heart would be this: 'If God could do this in me, He could do it in anyone Bill Vaughan grace heart moving Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid. Bill Vaughan make-or-break important kids The dogs absolutely do bark and play with each other, even though [Marino] says she trains them not to be noisy. But they're animals; that's what they do. Bill Vaughan dog play animal Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends. Bill Vaughan foreigners bloody The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders. Bill Vaughan borders war america IF you torture a single chicken and are caught, you're likely to be arrested. If you scald thousands of chickens alive, you're an industrialist who will be lauded for your acumen. Bill Vaughan acumen chickens alive Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision. Bill Vaughan parent kids school My son, who's on the spectrum is a very rigid thinker. He needs clear-cut definitions of right and wrong. Anything hazy or gray confuses him. For instance, if I try to get him to see that a friend behaved badly, he'll often get upset with me because a friend is a 'good guy' by definition, in his book. Bill Vaughan cutting book son Kids don't talk like adults, but kids on the spectrum don't necessarily fall into the same patterns of speaking or have the same interests as other kids their age. Bill Vaughan age kids fall I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars. Bill Vaughan growing-up stars meaningful Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there? Bill Vaughan real house doe Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can. Bill Vaughan hoping-for-the-best worst Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. Tho'the way be long let your heart be strong, Keep right on round the bend. Tho' you're tired and weary Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode, Where all you love you've been dreaming of Will be there, at the end of the road. Bill Vaughan strong dream love-you One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids. Bill Vaughan advantage followers kids Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band. Bill Vaughan drumming band power
