But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.

Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.

The Prince came to give life unto those whose lives were almost being snuffed out by the devil via the cares of this world.

Procrastination is a silent dream killer. And sometimes the only way to avoid a great dream being snuffed out is to make today that one day you've been promising yourself to take that first baby step you know you need to take. ~Tunde Salami

De jure objections are arguments of claims to the effect that Christian belief, whether or not true, is at any rate unjustifiable, or rationally unjustified, or irrational, or not intellectually respectable, or contrary to sound morality, or without sufficient evidence, or in some other way rationally unacceptable, not up to snuff from an intellectual point of view.

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, V?clav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

Every year I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me to see the future snuffed out.

But for me it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people to see a bright future snuffed out is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.