Metserskuipen Quotes & Sayings

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The law is not a checklist we keep; it is a benchmark we fail. — Timothy Keller

The sea erupted. Often the sea and land changed places. The immobility of contours of continents and seas, a dogma in geology, has no basis in fact. And immediately there is the problem of the climate. There were ancient climates that were very different from what they are today. If those corals grew where they were found, certainly the Earth was not travelling with the same elements of rotation and revolution which means not in the same orbit, not with the axis directed in the same position as it is today. If you don't believe it, try to conservate corals on the North Pole. — Immanuel Velikovsky

My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think ... and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Fashion is about the present and the immediate future. I think in terms of now. — Oscar De La Renta

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town. — Ewan McGregor

As historian Gary Ferguson writes, "while livestock may be the kindling, the real fuel for the burn is that the federal government is behind the project. . . . Westerners couldn't buy a more perfect evil if they rode straight to hell with a saddlebag full of cash." Or, as one stockman said in 1989, "It's not so much the wolves we're afraid of, it's the wolf managers. — William R. Lowry

I only want to walk a little longer in the cold blessing of the rain, and lift my face to it. — Kim Addonizio

Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily — Marcus Aurelius

I'm an engineer turned entrepreneur who's passionate about connection. — Leah Busque

Attentive japa pleases the Lord and ultimately solves all problems. — Mahanidhi Swami