Edelsteine Quotes & Sayings

I was stunned. I was, and I knew it, an ordinary person who long after he was grown retained the childhood assumption that the people who largely control our lives are somehow better informed than, and have judgment superior to, the rest of us; that they are more intelligent. Not until Vietnam did I finally realize that some of the most important decisions of all time can be made by men knowing really no more than, and who are not more intelligent than, most of the rest of us. That it was even possible that my own opinions and judgment could be as good as and maybe better than a politician's who made a decision of profound consequence. — Jack Finney

Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day. — Derek Parfit

You're not the only one accused of hit and run. Tire tracks all across my back, well I can see you've had your fun. — Jimi Hendrix

The world will tell you who you are, until you tell the world who you are. — Tamara Winfrey Harris

Lack of potatoes left a person's stomach growling, but absence of beauty hardened the soul. — Kate Morton

Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life. — Janet Erskine Stuart

Datta, dayadhvam, damyata
(Give, sympathize, control) — T. S. Eliot

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education. — Vladimir Putin

Don't underestimate the power of a guilty mind. Never underestimate self-shame and self-destruction. — Tim Hawken

Never hurt people who love you a lot because they won't hurt you back. but they will probaly have no choice but to leave you forever — Unknown

Also, for a team as strong as like ours, the Tour will always remain the biggest goal of the whole year, and personally I will certainly concentrate most of my energy on this race. — Laurent Jalabert