Gerhardus Johannes Quotes & Sayings

When you're in zero gravity everything moves at the same speed and nothing stops it. If you throw something it travels forever but it still travels at the speed you threw it at. To make it plausible, movies have chosen to show it in slow motion. — Danny Boyle

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. — Rene Descartes

Come all you thoughtless young men,
a warning take by me
And never leave your happy homes
to sail the raging sea. — Patrick O'Brian

During a recent interview, President Obama revealed that his favorite movie this year was 'Boyhood.' It makes sense. If there's one thing Obama can identify with, it's aging several years over the course of a couple of hours. — Jimmy Fallon

Doctors may have told you there is no hope for you medically, but you can always find supernatural HOPE from God's Word. — Charles Capps

Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone. — Desmond Tutu

And what we're doing in Ohio is we're moving from a basic manufacturing economy to one that's diversified, including energy and health care and agriculture and IT. — John Kasich

It's no surprise that optimistic athletes, managers and teams do better. What's interesting is where they do better. It's in coming back from defeat and acting in the clutch. — Martin Seligman

The flame is faith. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I mean when you go to a network and say, "We want to make a martial arts series in the future." And give them the pitch. And by the way, the only way to achieve the authentic Hong Kong martial arts we need a full-time fight team unit working concurrently, and we're hiring a Chinese fight team from Hong Kong. And they were like, "Great, let's go." — Alfred Gough

If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies. — Claudia Jones

Our archaeological ancestry lost hair while growing sweat glands to reduce panting in the hot African sun. One outcome evolved the origin of our speech. Another conquered our ability to shut the hell up and listen. Now? Politicians grunting "On the Origin of Speeches" past one another. — Brian Spellman

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction. — Vint Cerf

My son ask for thyself another Kingdom, for that which I leave is too small for thee — Philip II Of Macedon

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose. — Richard Attenborough