Cornelius Jansen Quotes & Sayings

Thirty-two coups d'etat are enough. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide

DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing. — Ambrose Bierce

Yes, sometimes we must lose something ... someone ... before we realize its worth. — Julie Klassen

When we withhold the tithe we bring upon ourselves a curse. — Phil Pringle

You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger. — Carrie Jones

Two princes each one fair."
*Walks toward the princes*
"No get the hair. — Joanna Gleason

We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good. — Walter Cronkite

The past is dead except for the life you give it — Myles Munroe

If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely. — Ethel Waters

Horses make a landscape look beautiful. — Alice Walker

You don't exist in the past or in the future. You only exist in the present moment. — Debasish Mridha

Peace within us translates to our exterior world. Our outer and inner state of peace is directly related to each other. It's simply impossible to have lasting peace around us unless we have peace within us. — Janice Anderson

Be like the single blade of grass. For she too, has been trampled on, mowed down, and hit with such bitterly cold stretches that she had to shut down to survive. Yet still she stands upright with dignity, knowing that she endures, and still she dances with the wind. — Sandra Kring

After receiving the customary answer that the government was performing superbly, I generally asked the person how they arrived at this conclusion. They often cited the construction of schools and clinics, solar panels and paved roads as signs of progress. Mind you, the majority of this infrastructure was paid for and coordinated by the United States and other NATO countries. Most were built by U.S. and other Coalition Forces, not the Afghan government, and not the Afghan citizens. The typical Afghan citizen did not realize this however. Most were under the impression that their own government had planned, funded and overseen these projects. None ever stopped to think about how their government had miraculously come up with the billions of dollars necessary to complete these developments. — Jennifer Dunham