Gulbenkian Foundation Quotes & Sayings

I find myself thinking back to something I saw on the local news about a year ago. A teen football player had died in a car accident. The cameras showed all his friends after the funeral - these big hulking guys, all in tears, saying, "I loved him. We all loved him so much." I started crying, too, and I wondered if these guys had told the football player they loved him while he was alive, or whether it was only with death that this strange word, love, could be used. I vowed then and there that I would never hesitate to speak up to the people I loved. They deserved to know they gave meaning to my life. They deserved to know I thought the world of them. — David Levithan

[C]ouches and chairs covered in scratches aim away from one another, making it possible for a dozen people to sit in this room at once and not have to talk to one other person, which is a miracle in furniture arrangement. — Nova Ren Suma

They say that courage isn't a lack of fear. It is doing what has to be done, despite your fear. — Ruth Cardello

We are ready to build large underground gas storages in Turkey, to participate in the privatization of Turkey's gas-distribution networks, to use the existing and participate in the construction of new pipelines in order to supply our energy resources through Turkey to third countries, including in southern Europe — Vladimir Putin

If we are the sum of everything that happens to us, to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth. — David Viscott

When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of life. — Alexandra Katehakis

He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs
pairs of opposites ... He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them. — C.S. Lewis