Olifanten Weetjes Quotes & Sayings

Bestow rewards without respect to customary practice; publish orders without respect to precedent. Thus you may employ the entire army as you would one man. — Sun Tzu

Charity is love; not all love is charity. — Thomas Aquinas

When I was 15, I left school to start a magazine, and it became a success because I wouldn't take no for an answer. I remember banging on James Baldwin's door to ask for an interview when he came to England. Then I got Jean-Paul Sartre's home phone number and asked him to contribute. If I'd been 30, he might have said no, but I was a 15-year-old with passion and he was charmed. Making money was always just a side product of having a good time and creating things nobody'd seen before. — Richard Branson

Understanding exactly what you need to do and then finding a way to do it, makes a quest much more feasible — Chris Guillebeau

God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth. — Mahatma Gandhi

I have been blessed with many curses in my life, not the least of which was being born half Lebanese and half American. Throughout my life, these contradictory parts battled endlessly, classed, never coming to a satisfactory conclusion. I shuffled ad nauseam between the need to assert my individuality and the need to belong to my clan, being terrified of loneliness and terrorized of losing myself in relationships. I was the black sheep of my family, yet an essential part of it. — Rabih Alameddine

If a pleasure lasts forever, it isn't a pleasure anymore. — Debasish Mridha

At the very least, given this symbolic process and its ideological consequences, mass incarceration's racial disparities will rarely provoke a crisis of conscience for those ensconced in white dominant society. To be sure, there will be some white analysts who insist that knowledge of the disparity and the conditions of mass incarceration should generate society-wide shame and so indict a whole society for the indignity and inhumanity that U.S. prison institutions have institutionalized. — Mark Lewis Taylor

A man of independent judgment is a man of profound self-esteem. — Ayn Rand

I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored. — Nick Frost

I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer. — Denis Hayes