Devaroe Lawrence Quotes & Sayings

There are 60 million generators in Nigeria. The generator owners and distributors have a strong incentive to not encourage the distribution of solar and other alternative energies, even though it's better for the country, it's better for people. As a world, we've got to get more serious about confronting those obstacles. This knows no culture, no race, no ethnicity. — Jacqueline Novogratz

If you take away all the prairie dogs, there will be no one to cry for the rain. — Terry Tempest Williams

In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite. — Anatole France

Codependents: don't trust themselves. don't trust their feelings. don't trust their decisions. don't trust other people. try to trust untrustworthy people. — Melody Beattie

It is the difference between hitting with a pillow and hitting with a baseball bat. — William Brohaugh

Here the clouds constantly adjusted like obedient phantoms, so that shadows never lengthened or shortened. At any point in space, Limbo never became any darker or lighter than the moment before. — L. E. Henderson

Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This may not be so absurd in the encyclopedic subjects but in mathematics it doesn't make any sense since things follow from each other and, in principle, whoever knows the bases knows everything. All of the results of a mathematical theorem are in the axioms of mathematics in embryonic form, aren't they? — Alfred Renyi

Evening is the best time in Gentilly. There are not so many trees ... — Walker Percy

Perhaps we will one day be able at least to admit of a God possessing sufficient majesty and expansiveness to transcend the limits of our own imaginations and experience. But meanwhile, ... we might do well to look upon the inadequacy of our concepts of God as the truest mirror of those limitations that define our condition. — Ian Tattersall

Baseball is important, but it's about fifth place behind my kids, my wife and the health of my family. — Mike Lowell

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief ... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it. — Florence Nightingale