Klippans Quotes & Sayings

I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past. — Vanilla Ice

The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action. — Jacques Ellul

According to Becker's logic, if we're short on cash and happen to drive by a convenience store, we quickly estimate how much money is in the register, consider the likelihood that we might get caught, and imagine what punishment might be in store for us if we are caught (obviously deducting possible time off for good behavior). On the basis of this cost-benefit calculation, we then decide whether it is worth it to rob the place or not. The essence of Becker's theory is that decisions about honesty, like most other decisions, are based on a cost-benefit analysis. — Dan Ariely

True friendship resists time, distance and silence. — Isabel Allende

Woody Allen once said: "You know there must be intelligent life in space. The question is do they have good Chinese restaurants and do they deliver?" Which is really a joke, but it is also a very profound remark. When you say do they have good Chinese restaurants, what you're really saying is, "How much are they like us?" And when you say, "Do they deliver?" you're saying, "Can they get here?" Both of which are profound questions. And at the present, we have no answers. — Gene Wolfe

Here's where the real power of generosity comes in. Often, the more we give, the more we receive. — Debbie Macomber

Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral. — Archibald Primrose

But now, since they had been in Rome, with all the depths of her emotion roused to tumultuous activity, and with life made a new problem by new elements, she had been becoming more and more aware, with a certain terror, that her mind was continually sliding into inward fits of anger and repulsion, or else into forlorn weariness. — George Eliot

The fact that seasoned politicians can say such ridiculous things - and get away with it - illustrates the degree to which the new dogma ... has swept through the left-of-centre governing classes. — Margaret Thatcher

I decided, on the spot, to let God into my heart, in the hope that my newfound faith can somehow be used as a vicious weapon in the marital war. — Nick Hornby

Women love a mystery. But only if we think we can figure it out. — Cora Carmack

Technically you would only need one time traveler convention. — Dorothy Gambrell