Haelvoet Olympia Quotes & Sayings

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made. — Sidney Blumenthal

Entomologist Dr. Ovid Byron speaking to television journalist, Tina, who says, re. global warming, "Scientists of course are in disagreement about whether this is happening and whether humans have a role."
He replies:
"The Arctic is genuinely collapsing. Scientists used to call these things the canary in the mine. What they say now is, The canary is dead. We are at the top of Niagara Falls, Tina, in a canoe. There is an image for your viewers. We got here by drifting, but we cannot turn around for a lazy paddle back when you finally stop pissing around. We have arrived at the point of an audible roar. Does it strike you as a good time to debate the existence of the falls?" p.367 — Barbara Kingsolver

Most people are nice when you finally see them — Harper Lee

George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life. — Elisabeth Elliot

Some trees are too deeply rooted to move ... And if they are uprooted, they will die ... — Jocelyn Murray

Books and novels in particular that grapple with quite a few things are difficult to explain, so I think that first line can come in a substitute for trying to form a longer sense of what the book is about. — Alice Sebold

The beauty of the sunbeam lies partly in the fact that God does not keep it; he gives it away to us all. — David Swing

It is up to the public to stop attending these theatrical, and aquatic shows, and circuses with wild animals. The rhetoric about how the animals are happy and well cared for are lies. Don't be swayed by them. The money behind these shows is huge; there is nothing good about them. — Tippi Hedren

As per the Wisdom of the Ancient One: "Man, can not live by smoothies alone. — Jacques

Judge for yourself. I've hated him and tried to love him for so many years I can't see him clearly. — Laurell K. Hamilton

On Earth you can meet Heaven and this meeting actualises every time you meet a kind person! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Electricity sparked between them at the touch, and she savored the way he made her yearn. How the crush of their lips together inspired revelations. — Katherine McIntyre