Bertien Steins Quotes & Sayings

Number theorists are like lotus-eaters
having once tasted of this food they can never give it up. — Leopold Kronecker

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines? — William Hague

The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong. — Carla Hall

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility. — Patrick Ness

Love as if you are living just to love.
Live as if your life depends on love. — Debasish Mridha

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk. — Dalai Lama

Katagiri Roshi says: "Poor artists. They suffer very much. They finish a masterpiece and they are not satisfied. They want to go on and do another." Yes, but it's better to go on and do another if you have the urge than to start drinking and become alcoholic or eat a pound of good fudge and get fat. — Natalie Goldberg

I found more than love, more than hope and peace. I found my home. — Whitney Barbetti

EHMs provide favors. These take the form of loans to develop infrastructure - electric generating plants, highways, ports, airports, or industrial parks. A condition of such loans is that engineering and construction companies from our own country must build all these projects. In essence, most of the money never leaves the United States; it is simply transferred from banking offices in Washington to engineering offices in New York, Houston, or San Francisco. Despite the fact that the money is returned almost immediately to corporations that are members of the corporatocracy (the creditor), the recipient country is required to pay it all back, principal plus interest. — John Perkins

Words are the most powerful drug used by humankind. — Rudyard Kipling

Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just that public schools aren't producing the results we want - it's that we're not giving them what they need to help students achieve at high levels. K-12 education in the United States is deeply antiquated. — Eli Broad