Galda Piederumi Quotes & Sayings

The flow from knowledge to action draws upon the complete person with his or her catalyst and synergistic potential. — Ralph Nader

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they. — Bernard Of Chartres

Some people think it's wrong, being single isn't right. But if you hurt the right person, you'll be wrong all your life. — Tyga

I've been very fortunate that I've worked since I left drama school in 1976. — Pierce Brosnan

You've got to develop mental strength. And you develop mental strength with the will. The will is the mental faculty that gives you the ability to hold one idea under the screen of your mind to the exclusion of all outside distractions. — Bob Proctor

I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo) — Haruki Murakami

A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1. — Nicholas Sparks

calling something 'blessed' has become the go-to term for those who want to boast about an accomplishment while pretending to be humble," observes writer Jessica Bennett.[12] — John Ortberg

He moved in a world of chaos of self, fearful and astonished to be here, right here, alive in a pine-paneled bedroom. — Michael Cunningham

Long discourses, and philosophical readings, at best, amaze and confound, but do not instruct children. When I say, therefore, that they must be treated as rational creatures, I mean that you must make them sensible, by the mildness of your carriage, and in the composure even in the correction of them, that what you do is reasonable in you, and useful and necessary for them; and that it is not out of caprichio , passion or fancy, that you command or forbid them any thing. — John Locke

My idea right from the beginning, I guess, was to dismantle the immune system one gene at a time so we could track the mutations that cause problems. — Bruce Beutler

When we recognize that legal rules are simply formulae describing uniformities of judicial decision, that legal concepts likewise are patterns or functions of judicial decisions, that decisions themselves are not products of logical parthenogenesis born of pre-existing legal principles but are social events with social causes and consequences, then we are ready for the serious business of appraising law and legal institutions in terms of some standard of human values.
Felix Cohen, Columbia Law Review, 1935 — Felix S. Cohen

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own. — Karl Kraus

I believe in giving back. — Laura San Giacomo