Alfred Nobel Facts And Quotes & Sayings

A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. — Frederic Bastiat

Plant a tree in your lifetime. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I've gone up to a random guy in a grocery store before and said, 'Hi, I think you're cute. Are you single?' I'm not smooth. I just put it out there. — Autumn Reeser

The moment we change our thinking and start connecting with God, we start connecting with His plans, which always exceed our small plans. — Danny Gokey

I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me. — John Sherman Cooper

The tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never truly enjoys them. One has without truly having. The consumer is right-there is pleasure to be had in good things, a sacred and almost unspeakable pleasure, but the consumer wrongly thinks that one finds this pleasure by having more and more possessions instead of possessing them more truly through grateful contemplation. And here we are, living in an economy that perpetuates this tragedy. — Brian D. McLaren

She had arrived in dirty rags and had cooked up a striking outfit for herself, out of relief donations, — Tom Piazza

Subtlety sometimes eludes me. Why not just hit the nail on the head? — Paul Levine

France is going to endure, and I'll tell you [ISIS people who attacked Paris ] why. If you're in a war of culture and lifestyle with France, good fucking luck, because go ahead, bring your bankrupt ideology. They'll bring Jean-Paul Sartre, Edith Piaf, fine wine, Camus, Camembert, madeleines, macarons, Marcel Proust and the fucking croquembouche. You just brought a philosophy of rigorous self-abnegation to a pastry fight, my friend. You are fucked. — John Oliver

The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known. — Socrates