Illien Global Public Benefit Quotes & Sayings

That it was valuable rather than merely expensive. Ramsey's — Lionel Shriver

It's better to say nothing than spend 1,000 words or an hour speech saying nothing. Get to the point. — Richard Branson

Who am I fooling? Bad dreams never end. We just pretend they aren't there. — Shannon Mullen

The activities in a society is determined by its establishment — Sunday Adelaja

Faith sees the opportunity; doubt sees the obstacles. What you see is what you get! — James MacDonald

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Thermodynamics is one of those words best avoided in a book with any pretence to be popular, but it is more engaging if seen for what it is: the science of 'desire'. The existence of atoms and molecules is dominated by 'attractions', 'repulsions', 'wants' and 'discharges', to the point that it becomes virtually impossible to write about chemistry without giving in to some sort of randy anthromorphism. Molecules 'want' to lose or gain electrons; attract opposite charges; repulse similar charges; or cohabit with molecules of similar character. A chemical reaction happens spontaneously if all the molecular partners desire to participate; or they can be pressed to react unwillingly through greater force. And of course some molecules really want to react but find it hard to overcome their innate shyness. A little gentle flirtation might prompt a massive release of lust, a discharge of pure energy. But perhaps I should stop there. — Nick Lane

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions. — Sarah Caldwell

all success cloaks a surrender — Simone De Beauvoir

But one aspect of Revelation must not be allowed to exclude or to obscure another; and Christianity is dogmatical, devotional, practical all at once; it is esoteric and exoteric; it is indulgent and strict; it is light and dark; it is love, and it is fear. — John Henry Newman

A gigantic golden statue of Zeus had originally stood at the entrance, always looking down on the Titans in their new homes, but Hades had it moved and melted down well before I was born. Ensuring your prisoners were behaving was one thing, but antagonizing them every single day with a gleaming thirty-foot statue of the person who had defeated them was only going to end in rebellion and more death. — Steve McHugh