Drostes Quotes & Sayings

I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go. — J.M. Barrie

I have found that this is pretty radical notion for anyone who was raised with a strong Christian background. Within that religious tradition there is an emphasis on original sin, which dictates that we area bacically not good at all but must work for our salvation. Within the Buddhist tradition we are saying the opposite: actually you are basically good. You are basically wise. You are basically kind. You just need to discover that truth and develop confidence in it. — Lodro Rinzler

An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man. — Plato

It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems. — Napoleon Hill

To know ten thousand things, know one well — Miyamoto Musashi

And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by. — Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas

At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. — Louis D. Brandeis

Nostalgia used to be called mal du Suisse - the Swiss sickness. — Christian Rudder

Be careful. People like to be told what they already know. Remember that. They get uncomfortable when you tell them new things. New things ... well, new things aren't what they expect. They like to know that, say, a dog will bite a man. That is what dogs do. They don't want to know that a man bites a dog, because the world is not supposed to happen like that. In short, what people think they want is news, but what they really crave is olds. I can see you've got the hang of it already. — Terry Pratchett

He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For the first time, we saw our world, not as a solid, immovable, kind of indestructible place, but as a very small, fragile-looking world just hanging against the blackness of space. — Brian Cox

Last I checked, Bill Gates was worth $50 billion. If the average employed adult, who is walking in a hurry, will pick up a quarter from the sidewalk, but not a dime, then the corresponding amount of money given their relative wealth that Bill Gates would ignore if he saw it lying on the street is $25,000. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson