Brother David Steindl Rast Quotes & Sayings

When we walked the mowed margins of the field in the evenings, a school of black crickets sprang ahead of us like dolphins in front of a ship. — Kristin Kimball

Perform your task and I shall know you. Perform your task and your genius shall befriend the more. — Ogwo David Emenike

His heart was leaping against his ribs like a frantic bird. Perhaps it knew it had little time left, perhaps it was determined to fulfill a lifetime's beats before the end. — J.K. Rowling

Our national prosperity is built on our open borders. However, the reality is that if a points system is introduced in the UK it would be unavoidable for us in the Netherlands to implement similar proposals - and inevitable that many other EU countries would follow suit. — Mark Rutte

Ford was beginning to behave rather strangely, or rather not actually beginning to behave strangely but beginning to behave in a way that was strangely different from the other strange ways in which he more regularly behaved. — Douglas Adams

When images are in black and white, they seem timeless. When you see Carrie Otis in an ad from 1989 next to an ad with Klara Wester from 2009, you don't see a 20-year difference between the pictures. — Paul Marciano

Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home. — Ernest Istook

Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible. — Thomas Sowell

Russian, Japanese and Korean scientists has recently mapped the genome of ancient mammoths, — Yuval Noah Harari

I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen. — Queen Latifah

I prefer to be noticed some day, first for my ideas and second for my good eye ... — Ernst Haas

There's a part of grief that's unexpected. After the days when you think you'll never be able to get out of bed again and after walking about feeling like your insides are hollow and your skin is made of paper, you start remembering. You remember not the death and seeing the one you love in a hospital bed with tubes. You remember what he was like before all of that, when he was well and you were whole. It's that remembering that catches up with you and then you know the person you lost isn't lost after all, but has become part of you and you're the better for it. — Shelly King

The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever. — Jeff Bezos

But the ifs of history: if Cleopatra's nose had been one inch longer,' he said, 'would Antony have lost the battle of Actium? — William Dalrymple

On a superficial level, I like girls with dark hair - I'm a sucker for that. — Elijah Wood