Koronis Hills Quotes & Sayings

You don't have to dance. Just brood in beat to the music. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

They needed to believe they had a chance.
Even if they had none.
They needed to believe that love and faith would win the day.
Even if the day was already lost. — Nancy Holder

When we hit a nail with a hammer the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into a point without any of it being lost, although it is only a point. If the hammer and head of the nail were infinitely big, if would be just the same; the point of the nail would transmit this infinite shock at the point to which it was applied. Extreme affliction, which means physical pain, distress of the soul, and social degradation all at the same time, is a nail whose point is applied at the very center of the soul, whose head is all necessity, spreading throughout space and time — Simone Weil

We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief. — Wei Wu Wei

Mother Earth has never been more crowded, yet her inhabitants have never been more lonely. — Anasazi Foundation

Whoever becomes master of a city accustomed to live in freedom and does no destroy it, may reckon on being destroyed by it. For if it should rebel, it can always screen itself under the name of liberty and its ancient laws, which no length of time, nor any benefit conferred will ever cause it to forget; and do what you will, and take what care you may, unless the inhabitants be scattered and dispersed, this name, and the old order of things, will never cease to be remembered ... — Niccolo Machiavelli

The acomodador: Because according to the story we are told, there always comes a moment in our lives when we reach "our limit" ... there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us failing to progress — Paulo Coelho

I'm not one of these people who thinks everybody's gay. — Andrew Sullivan

Pain is a difficult companion. There's no getting around that. But, if pain is to be a companion, searching and discovering your own best ways to travel with that pain will lead you to the joy that you long to have. They are your paths, your ways and while my experience and the experiences of others may inspire you, ultimately it will be the choices you discover and make for yourself that lead you to certain joy in the midst of your challenges. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics. — Robin S. Sharma

Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who's freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn. — Peter Dinklage

Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel. — John Irving

Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland. — W. Averell Harriman