Lavertu Terre Quotes & Sayings

Two common Chinese words that are usually pronounced incorrectly here in the U.S., by nearly all television and radio broadcasters, are the words "Beijing" and "yuan." The "j" in the name of China's capital city is not pronounced with the soft "j" sound like Je suis in French. The Chinese language lacks that sound entirely. The "j" in "Beijing" is pronounced like the "j" in "jingle." The yuan is China's currency, just as the dollar is ours. It is not pronounced "you-anne" or "you-awn." It is pronounced "you-when," or "U.N." when said quickly as if it were one syllable. — Larry Herzberg

What faith can you place in a general or a soldier who lacks resolution and determination, who says, 'I shall keep guard as long as I can'? — Mahatma Gandhi

Let husband and wife never speak to one another in loud tones,unless the house is on fire. — David O. McKay

I think being a teenager is such a compelling time period in your life
it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating moments. It's a fascinating place; old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else's approval. — Stephenie Meyer

Love is the strongest medicine. — Neem Karoli Baba

What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends — A.W. Tozer

A hardship mentality can make us narrow and defensive. A success and prosperity mentality can make us selfish. An attitude of thankfulness to God, for what He gives us, can make us truly generous. — Charles R. Ringma

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer. — George S. Clason

Even the great scientists have reported that their creative break-throughs came at a time of mental quietude. The surprising result of a nationwide inquiry among America's most eminent mathematicians, including Einstein, to find out their working methods, was that thinking 'plays only a subordinate part in the brief, decisive phase of the creative act itself'. — Eckhart Tolle

By using feminist arguments, for which most had little or no sympathy, as part of their propaganda, the colonialists tainted the cause of feminism in the Muslim world, and helped to distort the faith by introducing an imbalance that had not existed before.83 The — Karen Armstrong

No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. — Ammianus Marcellinus