Issara Institute Quotes & Sayings

Originally, the cellar served primarily as a coal store. Today it holds the boiler, idle suitcases, out-of-season sporting equipment, and many sealed cardboard boxes that are almost never opened but are always carefully transferred from house to house with every move in the belief that one day someone might want some baby clothes that have been kept in a box for twenty-five years. — Bill Bryson

Whoever seeks God as a means toward desired ends will not find God. The mighty God, the maker of heaven and earth, will not be one of many treasures, not even the chief of all treasures. He will be all in all or He will be nothing. God will not be used. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Alter strategies and tactics, but never your principles. — John Kessel

Dear religious, all-powerful entity, please help me be professional. Please help me resist sleeping with my sexual titan of a boss on this business trip. In the name of God or Krishna or Moses, or whoever can freaking help me. Amen. — Annabel Joseph

If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field. — Ruud Gullit

The only way of finding a solution is to fight back, to move, to run, and to control that pressure. — Rafael Nadal

To wish and wait From day to day Will never keep The wolves away. — Stephen Sondheim

War would soon erode the facade of their building as though it had accelerated time itself, a day's toll outpacing that of a decade. — Mohsin Hamid

Everything on the internet is real god damn it! — Bill Gates

Climate change and ozone depletion are two global issues that are different but have many connections. In the ozone depletion case, we managed to work with decision makers effectively so that an international agreement called the Montreal Protocol was achieved that essentially solved the ozone depletion problem. — Mario J. Molina

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life. — Giorgio Morandi

I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking. — Karen White

A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health. — Kurt Vonnegut

I do not believe that it could never be justifiable to experiment on a brain-damaged human. — Peter Singer

It hasn't been easy to find American citizens who are willing to pick fruit in 110 degree weather. — Fareed Zakaria