Riesco Island Quotes & Sayings

When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered. — John Slattery

Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important; it's the only time you can hear the whispering of truth. — Glenn Beck

In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest in fighting Germany and instead was determined to get someone else to assume the burden. He guessed right. — John Mearsheimer

We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actions have consequences. In fact, the consequences of past actions are already in the pipeline. Global temperatures are rising. Glaciers are melting. Sea levels are rising. Extreme weather events are multiplying. — Cary Fowler

I used to feel special, different and wonderful when I was very young, before the world showed me that everything I thought, said, or did was wrong. I lived in the blissfulness of youth without knowing how the world would not except me. — Jeannie Davide-Rivera

It has often been said that, to make discoveries, one must be ignorant. This opinion, mistaken in itself, nevertheless conceals a truth. It means that it is better to know nothing than to keep in mind fixed ideas based on theories whose confirmation we constantly seek, neglecting meanwhile everything that fails to agree with them. — Claude Bernard

I have begun to wonder if perfection might be its own flaw." She smirked. "Though perhaps a flaw can contribute to perfection. — Marissa Meyer

One would suffer a great deal to be happy. — Mary Wortley Montagu

If one candle is brought into an absolutely dark room, the darkness disappears, and there is light. But if ten or a hundred or a thousand candles are added, the room will become brighter and brighter. Yet the decisive change was brought about by the first candle which penetrated the darkness.57 — Erich Fromm

Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government. — Mark Sanford

I am not the Messiah. I am a simple human being with the unlimited power of love and kindness. — Debasish Mridha

I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a good many quite respectable mathematicians, are contemptuous about proof. I have heard Professor Eddington, for example, maintain that proof, as pure mathematicians understand it, is really quite uninteresting and unimportant, and that no one who is really certain that he has found something good should waste his time looking for proof. — G.H. Hardy

At times like this, adults need a drink — Haruki Murakami

The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing. — Malachy McCourt

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability. — Edward Burtynsky