Pelikaan Challenge Quotes & Sayings

This country [the Philippines] is like a pyramid, like a tower. It is made up of millions of stones ... And the foundation stone of this pyramid is the common man. — Ramon Magsaysay

You're the drug that works. — Heather Nova

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials. — Jennifer Stone

Once they were inside the park Bay asked, "Isn't there a store at the Rio Grande Village?"
"What is it you need?"
"Chocolate."
"It's a hundred degrees in the shade," he said. "Chocolate is going to melt."
"Well, actually, it isn't chocolate I need. It's something else. I didn't want to embarrass you."
"What?"
"Tampax."
He eyed her sideways. "Why didn't you bring some from home? Or pick some up at the safeway?"
She flushed. "I didn't think of it. Not that it's any of your business, but my periods aren't regular."
He made a disgusted sound. "This is exactly why I didn't want to bring you along. — Joan Johnston

The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art. — Theodore Roosevelt

Well, first of all if it wasn't for being saved by Jesus, I would not be alive. I would be dead. Some people say Jesus saved their soul ... Well, maybe Jesus saved my soul spiritually, but He also saved my life physically. Every aspect of my life today has to do with the fact that Jesus saved my life. — Lacey Mosley

Today, far continents have become suburbs. Even the moon has somehow come closer. But for all that, the past has not lost its power, and if within a lifetime a man changes his skin an infinite number of times--almost as often as his suits--still he does not change his heart: he has but one. — Ilya Ehrenburg

but statistics requires thinking about many things at once, which is something that System 1 is not designed to do. — Daniel Kahneman

[I]f you know what life is worth / You would look for yours on earth."266 — Dean MacNeil

Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit aware that there might be people I know out there, who wondered where I was. — Phoebe Snow

An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon. — Katherine Cecil Thurston