General Baldr Quotes & Sayings

Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest? — Markus Zusak

Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated. Only when all of our weaknesses are accepted as part of our humanity can our negative, broken self-images be transformed. — Jean Vanier

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood. — Jean De La Fontaine

When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms. — Zaha Hadid

I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football. — Adrian Peterson

Mothers and fathers act in mostly similar ways toward their young children. Psychologists are still highlighting small differencesrather than the overwhelming similarities in parents' behaviors. I think this is a hangover from the 1950s re-emergence of father as a parent. He has to be special. The best summary of the evidence on mothers and fathers with their babies is that young children of both sexes, in most circumstances, like both parents equally well. Fathers, like mothers, are good parents first and gender representatives second. — Sandra Scarr

The notion of following your passion is worth indulging. Your passion is your source of power. To live really a full life, you need to follow where it leads ... in defiance of all things conventional perhaps. And of course it has its price. You have to know that going in. But the price you pay, in my opinion, is not worth the time of day to think about. It is so important not to knee pad around the world. You should never bow down to anything but those you love and respect. Ever for anything. — Doug Peacock

We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity. — Alistair Begg

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

I'm just giving advice. — Yunosuke Yoshinaga

I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those actors who spends a lot of time engaging with the audience. — Jane Elliot

The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world. — Josef Albers