Running On Empty Don Aker Quotes & Sayings

Indians are in denial mode and wake up only when foreigners treasure India. They don't seem to know the value and,therefore, don't take pride in their tradition, unlike Westerners who take a lot of pride in theirs, even if there is little to be proud of — Maria Wirth

The spiritual and the physical had been blended in us with a perfection that must remain incomprehensible to the matter-of-fact, crude, standard-brained youngsters of today.
Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine.
Long before we met we had had the same dreams. — Vladimir Nabokov

...maybe strength in the 21st century isn't about dominance....it's about the capacity to evoke....the ability to spark the enduring bonds of shared values, intrinsic motivation, and mutually committed perseverance. It is, in short, not the power merely to command, subordinate, demean, insult - and then crow about it with impunity. It's the power to inspire, animate, infuse, spark, evoke - and then connect, link, and collaborate, to be a force multiplier. — Umair Haque

Let it be enough, Tesoro. It has to be enough. — Elizabeth Hunter

It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict. — Ellen Swallow Richards

Having children had knocked it all into a different arrangement. The minute you had children, you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations. — Meg Wolitzer

Just the usual formality before the chaos begins. Like playing the National Anthem before a Cubs game. — Berkeley Breathed

Many more will have to suffer, many more will have to die , don't ask me why ! — Bob Marley

Orthodoxy is my doxy and heterodoxy is your doxy. — Bart D. Ehrman

I didn't really listen to rock 'n' roll until I moved to LA. We would ditch school, go get high, put on Zeppelin IV and just bug out. — Lenny Kravitz

Blame or credit, does not belong to the child alone. Parents, those who raised the child, must be given equal credit, or blame. That does not change, when the child is one, twenty or ninety years old. — Omar Kiam

I watched the way our fingers intertwined, and I thought, What are hands made for but this? For holding. For holding on. — James Patterson

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. — Hyman G. Rickover