Knaw Radio Quotes & Sayings

Bees chase flowers. — Tracy L. Shreve

You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications. — James G. Stavridis

I don't wear mini-skirts or shorts because I have thread veins on my legs and cellulite, and I won't wear tights. — Marie Helvin

My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time! — Salma Hayek

If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. And if there had been no fall, then the entire historical fabric of Christianity, the story of the first sin and the reason for an atonement ... collapsed like a house of cards. — H.G.Wells

I honestly never had the biological need to reproduce until I met my husband. But by the same token, even if we were unsuccessful, we were totally okay with adopting. — Lisa Ling

To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity. — Twyla Tharp

My brain begins to work stuff out, but then kinda half way through, it starts wandering off and it's like ahh, unicorns. — Dougie Poynter

In many library systems, there are too few hours in the day to do the research necessary to find the means of training and retraining, much less to accomplish this training. — John Palfrey

The verses of Byron, Keats or Poe are real whether they are in bootleg form or not. You can still read them for the same effect. — Jasper Fforde

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts. — Julie Burchill

Stars were falling across the sky myriad and random, speeding along brief vectors from their origins in night to their destinies in dust and nothingness. — Cormac McCarthy

You've got to commit to something. I'm not telling you it has to be your life's dream or that it'll get you a Nobel Prize. But it will earn you more ownership of yourself. Commit to something
that is the essence of soul-searching. — Laura C. Schlessinger