Allmennkunnskap Quotes & Sayings

Meaningful truths are never newly discovered; they're just uncovered anew. — Malcolm Forbes

And if it took awhile, that means she was in pain for a long time. — Jeffery Deaver

The child you once were lives on within you unchanged. — Bryant McGill

The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality. — Richard J. Foster

I met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, visited our allies in the Arab Gulf, traveled to Tunisia and Iraq, met with President Petro Poroshenko in Ukraine, and visited our allies in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. — Kevin McCarthy

But a little milk, butter and cheese are acceptable because no harm is done in obtaining them. — Sathya Sai Baba

I wanted us to have a holiday, not a ruddy breakdown. — Alan Garner

Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

You have access to everything that has ever happened or ever will happen if you can only open your consciousness to receive it. — Russell Anthony Gibbs

Tens of millions of acres have been added to the federal wilderness system, environmental impact assessments are now required for all major developments, some lakes that were declared dead are living again. . . . Lead particulates have been impressively reduced in the atmosphere; DDT is no longer found in American body fat, which also contains considerably fewer polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) than it once did. Mercury has virtually disappeared from Great Lakes sediment; and Strontium 90 is no longer found in either cows' milk or mothers' milk." And Dowie stressed: "What all these facts have in common is that they are the result of outright bans against the use or production of the substances in question."III, 27 — Naomi Klein

Brick walls are there for a reason. And once you get over them - even if someone has practically had to throw you over - it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it. — Randy Pausch

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence. — John Quincy Adams

In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create a natural doubt of the authenticity of my narrative. — H.P. Lovecraft

We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical. — Dixie Lee Ray