Electrification Coalition Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word. — David Mamet

Therefore by the example of Abram, entire self-renunciation is enjoined, that we may live and die to God alone. — John Calvin

What a strange demented feeling it gives me when I realize that I have spent whole days before this inkstone, with nothing better to do, jotting down at random whatever nonsensical thoughts have entered my head. — Yoshida Kenko

Having nothing to struggle
against
they have nothing to struggle
for. — Charles Bukowski

Look what is happening in the world - we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected. — Samuel Gompers

The rain keeps up throughout the next day. "Lovely English summer we're having," everyone jokes. — Gayle Forman

Even with insects - some can sing, some can't. — Kobayashi Issa

She may be from the sky, yet she is not so strange after all. — Ken Liu

The world was full of collectors, scouring the earth for pieces of themselves. — Kathleen Tessaro

Let us encourage the generosity which is typical of the young and help them to work actively in building a better world. Youth do not solely need material things. Above all, they need to have those non-material values which are the spiritual heart of a people ... spirituality, generosity, solidarity, perseverance, fraternity, and joy. — Pope Francis

Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in as in their rectified version — George Orwell

I have dual citizenship; I would be happy to go to England. I would be very happy to go to America. — John McAfee