Maufrais Raymond Quotes & Sayings

Going back to the origin is called peace; it means reversion to destiny. Reversion to destiny is called eternity. Those who know eternity are called enlightened. — Laozi

Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy. — Bill Vaughan

We have decreased the salaries of everybody who partakes in politics, from the president to the prime minister to the MPs [members of Parliament]. We have cut expenditures that have to do with parliament. Everybody knows we are serious. — Antonis Samaras

The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than that which itself can provide. Religion, if it is to take seriously its claim that the world is the creation of god, must be humble enough to learn from science what that world is actually like. The dialogue between them can only be mutually enriching. — John Polkinghorne

Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began. — Betty Ford

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The landscape which, a few weeks earlier, had been blotted out by dust was now hazy with moisture. — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless. — Nancy Gibbs

The destructive effects of video games are not on boys' cognitive abilities or their reaction times, but on there motivation and their connectedness with the real world. — Leonard Sax

Not everything needs to be recycled. — William McDonough

Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves. — Andy Rooney

Yeah sure, I'd love to have all my movies on DVD. — Jerry Bruckheimer

I don't see myself as somebody who looks particularly good in photos. — Tino Sehgal

Hawaii was defined by its isolation. Its first settlers, probably Polynesians from islands to the south, are thought to have arrived roughly around the time of Christ. Over the centuries, Hawaiians had little contact with anyone else because almost no one could cross the vast expanse of ocean that surrounded their islands. Thousands of unique plants and animal species evolved, more than almost anywhere else on earth. — Stephen Kinzer