Philanthropists Who Give To Individuals Quotes & Sayings

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education. — John Buchan

In the next few years, there will be a staggering turn in world events! A giant Asian superpower, with a modernized Russia and China at the helm, will dramatically affect the course of history. This emerging power bloc - a conglomerate of peoples which comprise one fourth of the world's population - will be deeply involved in the tumultuous tide of events that will lead to the conclusion of mankind's 6,000 years of self-rule! How can we know this? — Stephen Flurry

Good morals lead to good laws. — Chuck Norris

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. — George Edward Woodberry

Messrs. Washington and Lincoln faced enormous difficulties, but they both gave their lives to make sure America survived. — Monica Crowley

I was roommates with 2 of the guys who were influential in forming the Black Arts philosophy. I called them "goons," and [Amiri] Baraka took offense at that. But if you read his autobiography, the night we went up there for a fundraiser, he talks about how he wished that some violence would happen to us. How do you like Baraka as a gracious host? — Ishmael Reed

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme. — Christian Lacroix

I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful. — Leon Kass

If you encounter the light, you shall never walk in darkness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow. — Cotton Mather

In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it. — Chogyam Trungpa

Hitchcock had a very strange mind. — Tippi Hedren

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it. — Judy Davis

There's always a little wiggle room," he'd told Simon, "a little space to figure these things out yourself." He'd taught Simon to ask questions, to challenge authority, to understand and believe in rules before he followed them. There was a noble Jewish heritage of arguing, his father liked to say, even when it came to arguing with God. — Cassandra Clare