Alexandrine Of Mecklenburg Schwerin Quotes & Sayings

To find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it. — Shimon Peres

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?' — Cal Ripken Jr.

I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat. It is only some carnivorous animals that have to subsist on flesh. Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventures, and for hides and furs is a phenomenon which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging in such acts of brutality ... Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures. — Dalai Lama

So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license. — Robert McChesney

Success is not an adjective for a life. A person can only be successful at part of something not in all something. — Todd Stocker

I look forward to the day when indigenous actors can play Hamlet and Ophelia and not just Othello and Desdemona. — Shari Sebbens

You notice, by the way, that we never have a meeting with an alien. It's always an encounter. — Jack McDevitt

Yet even if their advice were to work, what would be the result afterward in the unlikely event that one did turn into a slim, well-loved, powerful millionaire? Usually what happens is that the person finds himself back at square one, with a new list of wishes, just as dissatisfied as before. What would really satisfy people is not getting slim or rich, but feeling good about their lives. In the quest for happiness, partial solutions don't work. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi