Grootmoeder Frans Quotes & Sayings

A four-letter alphabet called DNA. — Matt Ridley

Perhaps you had an older brother who was a brilliant student. He got A's in school; you made only C's, and you never heard the last of it. So you believed that you could never succeed in life as he could. He got A's and you got C's, so you reasoned that you were consigned to getting C's all your life. Apparently you never realized that some of those who failed to get high grades in school have been the greatest successes outside of school. Just because somebody gets an A in college doesn't make him the greatest man in the United States, because maybe his A's will stop when he gets his diploma, and the fellow who got C's in school will go on later to get the real A's in life. — Anonymous

No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk. — Alan Greenspan

Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do. — Criss Jami

Getting things accomplished isn't nearly as important as taking time for love. — Janette Oke

It seems to me that religion is losing momentum and God is making a comeback. — Steve Maraboli

My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing. I hope human justice will see at the same way. — Giulio Andreotti

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click. — Eli Pariser

Though all the guns be silenced,
each soldier in his home,
There is no peace till Love comes,
till the meek may safely roam. — C. P. Klapper

As places of learning, schools have a responsibility to also educate on nutrition, which we all can agree is far more important than algebra, no matter what your third-period teacher claims. — Lynda Resnick

You'll be really sorry of you try to bypass all the detours. You don't want to get to your destination and not remember anything about the trip. — Gwen Hayes

Many cases of twentieth-century American map geekdom, it seems, began the same way that many twentieth-century Americans began: conceived in the backseats of Buicks — Ken Jennings