Freifeld Quotes & Sayings

It's impossible to be unhappy while wearing a poncho! — Noel Fielding

Ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot? ... For a thousand that regret compulsory education, where is the hundred, or the ten, or the one, who would repeal compulsory education? ... At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; nobody talks about repeal. — G.K. Chesterton

Up until then humans had displayed some innovative adaptations and behaviours, but their effect on their environment had been negligible. They had demonstrated remarkable success in moving into and adjusting to various habitats, but they did so without drastically changing those habitats. The settlers of Australia, or more accurately, its conquerors, didn't just adapt, they transformed the Australian ecosystem beyond recognition. — Yuval Noah Harari

You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes. — Dejan Stojanovic

His eyes did not do anything that shock normally describes. No snapping, no slapping, no jolt. Those things happen when you wake from a bad dream, not when you wake into one. — Markus Zusak

Value inner attunement as much as you value outer attainment. — Danielle LaPorte

We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God's grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Of course I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls — Kevin Rudd

Architecture was always the plan. I always figured I'd just do theater on the side. — Michael Lomenda

What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing? — Naomi Klein

It is at the time of dawn that we must commune with the gods. — Apollonius Of Tyana

I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. — Emma Watson

Warriors aren't the only ones who can kick a little ass, you know. Some maidens can more than hold their own. — Tracy Deebs

If all you do is follow the herd, you'll just be stepping in poop all day — Wayne Dyer