Kopenhagen Quotes & Sayings

Who is this vague "they" we blame for so many of our problems? "They" is the obscure party we use as our whipping boy to camouflage the fact that we - you and I and other specific human beings just like us - have to start doing things differently. "They" can't fix anything. We can. — Price Pritchett

The world is in need of an encompassing and of course, just and humane order in the light of which the rights of all are preserved and peace and security are safeguarded. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

If we invest in ourselves, the collective good, we all thrive. — Cory Booker

There is no spirituality without ethics — Jonathan Wittenberg

The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can. — Steve Jobs

One narcissus among the ordinary beautiful
flowers, one unlike all the others! She pulled,
stooped to pull harder-
when, sprung out of the earth
on his glittering terrible
carriage, he claimed his due.
It is finished. No one had heard her.
No one! She had strayed from the herd.
(Remember: go straight to school.
This is important, stop fooling around!
Don't answer to strangers. Stick
with your playmates. Keep your eyes down.)
This is how easily the pit
opens. This is how one foot sinks into the ground. — Rita Dove

Call it eternal optimism or romantic rebellion, but one of these days karma would stop flipping her the bird and pay it forward. — Marina Adair

The night is the balm for the wounded souls of the world. — Avijeet Das

What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble. — Anais Nin

I don't think saying "I was wrong here, I was wrong there" absolves you of anything particularly, nor does it get you into heaven. — Bill Ayers

Using a combination of history, common sense, the Word of God and the Spirit of God, every leader can generally predict the way things will go. — Dag Heward-Mills

We have been waiting for you so that we could turn over the government. — Duong Van Minh

I have a desperate longing to have a desperate longing — Joss Whedon

I want to be a homer. I'm getting paid for something that I love to do. I would do it for nothing. — Ron Santo

The wit taught by God to the bee
Is withheld from the lion and the wild ass. — Rumi