Bjoerk Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

Children truly are the family's greatest treasure and most precious good. Consequently, everyone must be helped to become aware of the intrinsic evil of the crime of abortion. In attacking human life in its very first stages, it is also an aggression against society itself. Politicians and legislators, therefore, as servants of the common good, are duty bound to defend the fundamental right to life, the fruit of God's love. — Pope Benedict XVI

The person who makes promises to everyone ultimately pleases no one. — Robin Sharma

This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind. — Felix Baumgartner

I've thought that perhaps that's why women are so often sad, once the child's born," she said meditatively, as though thinking aloud. "Ye think of them while ye talk, and you have a knowledge of them as they are inside ye, the way you think they are. And then they're born, and they're different - not the way ye thought of them inside, at all. And ye love them, o' course, and get to know them they way they are ... but still, there's the thought of the child ye once talked to in your heart, and that child is gone. So I think it's the grievin' for the child unborn that ye feel, even as ye hold the born one in your arms. — Diana Gabaldon

I am a minstrel. I know more about lying than you will ever discover. And minstrels know that sometimes lies are what a man needs most. In order to make a new truth of them. — Robin Hobb

We're all going through our problems, but we all have the same insecurities and we all have the same abilities and we all need each other. — Beyonce Knowles

For all its shortcomings, Wikipedia does have strong governance and deliberative mechanisms; anyone who has ever followed discussions on Wikipedia's mailing lists will confirm that its moderators and administrators openly discuss controversial issues on a regular basis. — Evgeny Morozov

I seem to have dodged all my days with one or two persons, and lived upon expectation,
as if the bud would surely blossom; and soI am content to live. — Henry David Thoreau

He can't play
when someone is watching him," Justin almost sang into my ear. "Totally screws
up then."
"But you all
are watching him," I pointed out.
At the back of
the room, someone laughed. "Yeah, but we're not girls. — Piper Shelly

You're more trouble than you're worth."
"I'm a girl. That's my job. — Tamora Pierce

Voldemort,' said Riddle softly, 'is my past, — J.K. Rowling

New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like. — Ban Ki-moon

Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death. — Margaret Deland

How must he prove himself? What was it they wished to know of him? And what did he know of himself here where loneliness was an unavoidable element of life, and a man must rely solely on himself? — Margaret Craven

As the year goes on, certain deputies - and others, high in public life - will appear unshaven, without coat or cravat; or they will jettison these marks of the polite man, when the temperature rises. They affect the style of men who begin their mornings with a splash under a backyard pump, and who stop off at their street-corner bar for a nip of spirits on their way to ten hours' manual labor. Citizen Robespierre, however, is a breathing rebuke
to these men; he retains his buckled shoes, his striped coat of olive green. Can it be the same coat that he wore in the first year of the Revolution? He is not profligate with coats.
While Citizen Danton tears off the starched linen that fretted his thick neck, Citizen Saint-Just's cravat grows ever higher, stiffer, more wonderful to behold. He affects a single earring, but he resembles less a corsair than a slightly deranged merchant banker. — Hilary Mantel