Estopinal Foundation Quotes & Sayings

We are assured that the world is becoming more and more united, is being formed into brotherly communion, by the shortening of distances, by the transmitting of thoughts through the air. Alas, do not believe in such a union of people. Taking freedom to mean the increase and prompt satisfaction of needs, they distort their own nature, for they generate many meaningless and foolish desires, habits, and the most absurd fancies in themselves. They live only for mutual envy, for pleasure-seeking and self-display. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is only when one is under extreme duress that one's true character is revealed. — Christopher Earle

I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking about, social anxieties and romantic insecurities and all that stuff. — Matt Berninger

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. — E.B. White

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe. — Edmund Burke

I have long felt that an investment by the Department of Energy of a million dollars a year for the next 30 years would pay a higher return than any other investment this country could ever make. — Wilson Greatbatch

Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know. — Oscar Wilde

Why don't you ever call me my prince?" Galen says, feigning insult.
"Shut up, my prince. There, is that better? — Anna Banks

We have nothing to hide and it should be clear for the international community whose fault it was that the last closed European border was not open. — Serzh Sargsyan

I always look for ... hopefully look for a challenge. And you're always looking for the next summit to hit. Even if it's a personal one. It needn't be some great sense of monumental ... It just has to be important to you and big enough and special enough and individual enough that you get up for it. And that can be anything. — Joe Carnahan