Haakon Industries Quotes & Sayings

I feel gratitude to the Buddha for pointing out that what we struggle against all our lives can be acknowledged as ordinary experience. Life does continually go up and down. People and situations are unpredictable and so is everything else. Everybody knows the pain of getting what we don't want: saints, sinners, winners, losers. I feel gratitude that someone saw the truth and pointed out that we don't suffer this kind of pain because of our personal inability to get things right. — Pema Chodron

The common people only see weakness where there is greatness of spirit. — Philippa Gregory

You can never quench the desires of the greedy.
Do not attempt to quench the desires of the lustful. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We each project to others a reflection of the world which includes our choices of perception. — Bryant McGill

Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has. — Edna Ferber

If you're lucky enough to be involved in a film that's about something very real and that you hope will continue to hold up in 20 years' time it just gives you more energy and makes it feel all the more worthwhile. — Eric Bana

I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp. — John Cheever

Those for whom things came easily usually made less of an effort, not more. — David McCullough

Then there's the two
of us. This word
is far too short for us, it has only
four letters, too sparse
to fill those deep bare
vacuums between the stars
that press on us with their deafness.
It's not love we don't wish
to fall into, but that fear.
This word is not enough but it will
have to do. It's a single
vowel in this metallic
silence, a mouth that says
O again and again in wonder
and pain, a breath, a finger
grip on a cliffside. You can
hold on or let go. — Margaret Atwood

Mason raised a hand and ran his fingers over the area where his left eyebrow used to be. "Call me paranoid, but why can I no longer feel my eyebrow? — Eden Summers

To play the country-game, we have to choose a country. Everybody wants to be the USA and Britain and Canada and Australia and Switzerland and them. Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo, like Somalia, like Iraq, like Sudan, like Haiti, and not even this one we live in - who wants to be a terrible place of hunger and things falling apart? — NoViolet Bulawayo

Numeracy isn't a sign of geekiness, but a basic requirement for intelligent discussions of public policy. — Nicholas Kristof