Heidkeberg Quotes & Sayings

It could always all be unreal - how could you ever tell otherwise? You took it on trust, in part because what would be the point of doing anything else? When the fake behaved exactly like the real, why treat it as anything different? You gave it the benefit of the doubt, until something proved otherwise. — Iain M. Banks

A lack of knowledge creates fear. Seeking knowledge creates courage. — Candice Swanepoel

I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people. — Alexander Mackenzie

Be able to laugh at difficulties. — Goswami Kriyananda

The problem is that tolerant has changed its meaning. It used to mean 'I may disagree with you completely, but I will treat you with respect. Today, tolerant means - 'you must approve of everything I do.' There's a difference between tolerance and approval. Jesus accepted everyone no matter who they were. He doesn't approve of everything I do, or you do, or anybody else does either. You can be accepting without being approving. — Rick Warren

The stress that some of us feel - it's a lack of faith, it really is. — Francis Chan

Over the years I'd learned absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. The heart becomes wary, somnolent and cynical during periods of prolonged absence, burdened with cares and fears borne in solitude. However, absence does make the body greedy and irrationally amorous with frustrated need. — Penny Reid

This was characteristic of ultimate deterrence: The deterrer and the deteree shared the same terror of deterrence itself. — Liu Cixin

Sad people are too sad to do anything but drink brandy and sleep all day. — Carlton Mellick III

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's. — E. M. Forster

High culture isn't what it used to be. — Andrew O'Hagan

The other great force is changing social habits. Karl Marx said that the world would be divided into people who owned the means of production - the idle rich - and people who worked for them. In fact it is increasingly being divided between people who have money but no time and people who have time but no money. The on-demand economy provides a way for these two groups to trade with each other. — Anonymous

A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Every time we read to a child, we're sending a 'pleasure' message to the child's brain. You could even call it a commercial, conditioning the child to associate books and print with pleasure. — Jim Trelease

For my birthday that year Anne gave me an inflatable atlas globe, along with a birthday card in which she wrote:
I give you the world.
Have fun blowing it up. — Craig Ferguson