Rulemakers Quotes & Sayings

The United Nations exists not merely to preserve the peace but also to make change - even radical change - possible without violent upheaval. The United Nations has no vested interest in the status quo. It seeks a more secure world, a better world, a world of progress for all peoples. In the dynamic world society which is the objective of the United Nations, all peoples must have equality and equal rights. — Ralph Bunche

Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to lift the spell that causes your pernicious anaemia, or you can take Vitamin B12. If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. If you're interested in the sex of your unborn child, you can consult plumb-bob danglers all you want ... but they'll be right, on average, only one time in two. If you want real accuracy ... try amniocentesis and sonograms. Try science. — Carl Sagan

This evening he almost would have preferred to keep his feelings hidden. But it was, of course, against the rules. — Lois Lowry

You see all races in music, and in dance and theatre, so why can't we see it in fashion? — Naomi Campbell

Cycling is an endurance sport. You lose your fast-twitch ability as you age, but your endurance peaks when you hit 30. I don't think I really started feeling my age until around 40. — Jens Voigt

I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

Many of us refuse to grow where God plants us. Therefore, we don't take root anywhere. — Oswald Chambers

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No. — Vernon Jordan

So it is a good idea to start simple, I think, and be very careful. There is a spiritual opening in the Kosmos. Let us be careful of how we fill it. The simplest is: Spirit or Emptiness is unqualifiable, but it is not inert and unyielding, for it gives rise to manifestation itself: new forms emerge, and that creativity is ultimate. Emptiness, creativity, holons. — Ken Wilber

I was unwilling to be the good girl who respected the rules in a game designed to keep everyone but the rulemakers off balance. — Marilyn Wallace

Trust is a difficult thing, whether it's finding the right people to trust...Or trusting the right people will do the wrong thing. But trusting your heart...is the riskiest thing of all.In the end,the only person we can truly trust... is ourself. — Emily Thorne

The true church is too different for the world to tolerate it. — Sinclair B. Ferguson

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life. — Adrienne Rich

Any physical practice can be a competitive sport. What level you can take postures to create the maximum challenge and show your maximum skill, maximum control - it's not a combat game. It's a benefit to you. — Rajashree Choudhury

A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch. — Mignon McLaughlin