Bintou Thiam Quotes & Sayings

Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process. — Clay Shirky

We all want to believe that every day is different, that every day we change, but really, it seems that certain things are coded into us from the very beginning. — Jasmine Warga

Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense? — Elvis Presley

My mom was a huge Adam and the Ants fan. My granddad listened to a lot of Motown and Elvis and Johnny Cash. So I was kind of well-rounded. — Hayley Williams

You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better. — Timothy Ferriss

Deep caring about each other's fate does seem to be on the decline, but I do not believe that New Age narcissism is much to blame. The external causes of our moral indifference are a fragmented mass society that leaves us isolated and afraid, an economic system that puts the rights of capital before the rights of people, and a political process that makes citizens into ciphers.

These are the forces that allow, even encourage, unbridled competition, social irresponsibility, and the survival of the financially fittest. The executives who brought down the major corporations by taking indecent sums off the top while wage earners of modest means lost their retirement accounts were clearly more influenced by capitalist amorality than by some New Age guru. — Parker J. Palmer

I've never shied away from who I am, even when people asked me to be softer, quieter or warmer. I've proudly remained me. — Krista Ritchie

He Is looking at me through the smoke, across the fence. He never takes his eyes off me. His hair Is a crown of leaves, of thorns, of flames. His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent If we had ten thousand billion years. — Lauren Oliver

What potent blood hath modest May. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness. — Hannah Arendt

Well, when you're recording an album, artists have what they feel like is good music, and the label, they're trying to sell the album. So those two ideas clash sometimes, but in the end it always works out. When you put the two together, that's a good thing. — Kris Allen

While I was raised around churches and had gotten to know a few preachers fairly well, the thought never entered my head that I would one day stand and deliver. Not only was I not interested, I lived with a major struggle: I stuttered. — Charles R. Swindoll

I know something about a lot of things," she countered evenly. "That's why you're grooming me to be your lieutenant, remember?" - Mara Jade — Timothy Zahn

The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven't been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care. — Alain De Botton