Gairdner Prize Quotes & Sayings

I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional. — Fareed Zakaria

Come ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of Harvest-home! — Henry Ford

You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup ... — Ben Horowitz

I'm a visual writer, so it's fitting that my first brush with 'Red Queen' was an image. I had the idea of a teenage girl in an arena, a bit like 'Gladiator,' and she's about to be executed. But instead of being killed, she kills her executioner with lightning. — Victoria Aveyard

Nobody spoke for a minute; then Meg said in an altered tone, "You know the reason Mother proposed not having any presents this Christmas was because it is going to be a hard winter for everyone; and she thinks we ought not to spend money for pleasure, when our men are suffering so in the army. We can't do much, but we can make our little sacrifices, and ought to do it gladly. But I am afraid I don't," and Meg shook her head, as she thought regretfully of all the pretty things she wanted. — Louisa May Alcott

William Regal, what does besmirched mean? — Dwayne Johnson

I try to stay in shape just to handle things like the stress of a job or everyday life. — Erin Andrews

Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it and to choose to learn with wisdom. — Gary Zukav

When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish at his loneliness, his bodily idleness, his hostility to this world, came over him ... It was all drowned in the sea of cheerful common labor. God had given the day, God had given the strength. Both day and strength had been devoted to labour and in that lay the reward ... Levin had often admired this life, had often experienced a feeling of envy for the people who lived this life, but that day for the first time ... the thought came clearly to Levin that it was up to him to change that so burdensome, idle, artificial and individual life he lived into this laborious, pure and common, lovely life. — Leo Tolstoy

ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It's a serious problem overseas, but it's confusing and frightening. — Joe Biden

There is only one important resource which has shown a trend of increasing scarcity rather than increasing abundance. That resource is the most important of all - human beings ... [An] increase in the price of peoples' services is a clear indication that people are becoming more scarce even though there are more of us. — Julian Simon

Hope is the highest happiness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A noble heart is a window to find an open mind. — Anuj