Kaupunginhallitus Quotes & Sayings

You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times. — King Felipe VI

If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion. — Richard Baxter

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way. — John Elway

He moved closer and threw his arm around my shoulders, murmuring, Why are the beautiful ones always so troubled, huh? — L. H. Cosway

The beauty of it is that we have to content ourselves with the recognition of the miracle, beyond which there is no legitimate way out. — Albert Einstein

Years later, my father made a passing reference to the uncanny-valley response - the human aversion to things that look almost but not quite like people. The uncanny-valley response is a hard thing to define, much less to test for. But if true, it explains why the faces of chimps so unsettle some of us. — Karen Joy Fowler

I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax. — Michael Moore

Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist. — Levon Helm

So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship. — Stephen Kinzer

You judge the gods by who bows down at their altars? Ai Ling asked. — Cindy Pon

Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity. — Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

If thou may not continually gather thyself together, do it sometime at least once a day, morning or evening. — Thomas A Kempis

Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest. — Jean Douchet

There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem. — Mike Royko