Demokracie Referat Quotes & Sayings

The will of God is not something you add to your life. It's a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God ... or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world. — Elisabeth Elliot

A lot can happen when the sun dips down and the moon come out to play ... — Ella Frank

To me, such functions are like supermarket openings. — Norton Simon

Someone has said that enemies are just people whose stories we don't know. I see a lot of truth in that. The more other people's stories are hidden from us, the easier it is for us to view them as enemies. But, when we begin to learn their stories, we recognize all we share in common with them and we delight in how the unique beauty of their traditions enriches our own lives. — Joe Hayes

When I first came over to the States, I started writing, I think, as a way to help myself learn English. I would start stapling together little booklets for myself. — Marie Lu

For a while this seemed to do the trick, and I felt that whatever contamination I had helped to spread, the boundaries I had helped to break, sprinkling flakes of myself all over the surface of New York like so much fish food, had been forgiven. — Olivia Sudjic

What makes you tick? Why do you care about the things you care about? — Les Wexner

There never was a good knife made of bad steel. — Benjamin Franklin

I'm a proud Greek. I carry my Hellenism like a badge of merit. — Telly Savalas

True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not. — John Tillotson

It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance? — Elizabeth Peters

India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India. — Shashi Tharoor