Kvistad Foundation Quotes & Sayings

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written. — George Orwell

The moment that we think we know, we've lost our perspective on wisdom. — Diana Butler Bass

Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon. — Thomas Gray

You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it's your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You're probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you're gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years. — Chris Rock

Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. — William Rounseville Alger

I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian. — Juan Cole

As much as possible, I'd like every role to be totally different from the one before. — Richard Roundtree

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. — Rudyard Kipling

Back pocket Richie took a flattened can which had once held Del Monte pineapple chunks. There was a ragged hole about two inches in diameter through — Stephen King

Your prayers for others and the universe make a difference! — Susan Barbara Apollon

..to know a little about a lot. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

But legends are part of great events, and if they help keep alive the memory of gallant self-sacrifice, they serve their purpose. — Walter Lord

By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman. — Winnie Byanyima