Muistolaatta Quotes & Sayings

Challenging, darling," Anjoli corrected. "Release the struggle consciousness. Challenges can be overcome. One can rise to a challenge. Difficulty sounds so hopeless. Words are affirmations. Affirmations are manifestations. Manifestations - " "All right already! Eating will be challenging, are you happy?" "In general or at the moment?" "Good God, Mother! — Jennifer Coburn

Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain. — William Ernest Henley

It is this brighter side, the romantic side, the emotional side, that appeals to me. — Fennel Hudson

In short, Europe's colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was due to accidents of geography and biogeography - in particular, to the continents' different areas, axes, and suites of wild plant and animal species. That is, the different historical trajectories of Africa and Europe stem ultimately from differences in real estate. — Jared Diamond

Don't be afraid of the darkness in it, in yourself. — Lorna Jane Cook

On the Gulf side of these islands you may observe that the trees - where there are any trees - all bend away from the sea; and, even of bright, hot days when the wind sleeps, there is something grotesquely pathetic in their look of agonized terror. A group of oaks ... I remember as especially suggestive: five stooping silhouettes in line against the horizon, like fleeing women with streaming garments and wind-blown hair, - bowing grievously and thrusting out arms desperately northward as to save themselves from falling. And they are being pursued indeed; - for the sea is devouring the land. — Lafcadio Hearn

I think that generally, being honest with oneself and others about what you are or are not capable of doing can counteract that feeling of lack of self-confidence. — Dalai Lama XIV

How did a woman who was not even forty years old - and barely five feet tall in heels - come to command the full attention of a superpower like America — Monique Brinson Demery

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled. — Bruce Jackson

Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation. — Ron Kind

In Budapest, I always had questions. What is your signature dish? They, of course, said goulash. I loved it so much and now have to figure out a way to make it at home. — Tia Mowry