Sabiana Quotes & Sayings

Most of our social and educational institutions are designed to weed out or make over people ... until we produce a world where everyone is a smart, quick-witted, aggressive person living on the surface of the mind without ever looking into the depths. — Helen McCloy

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. — Eric Butterworth

Leave the woodpile higher than you found it. — Adrian Rogers

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society. — Kenneth Tynan

May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness. — Pope Francis

You make a great investment in the consumer Internet, maybe you make a lot of money and create something useful, interesting, or fun. But in life sciences, you have a chance to be part of something that lets people live longer and healthier and not lose the people they care about. That is really profound. — Bill Maris

Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens? — Rumi

From a pure heart anything can be accomplished. If you ask what the universe is doing, it is eavesdropping on your every desire. — Deepak Chopra

Sometimes it's more frightening to be the messenger of bad news than it is to simply avoid delivering the message at all. — Laury Falter

[Standing armies] constantly threaten other nations with war by giving the appearance that they are prepared for it, which goads nations into competing with one another in the number of men under arms, and this practice knows no bounds. And since the costs related to maintaining peace will in this way finally become greater than those of a short war, standing armies are the cause of wars of aggression that are intended to end burdensome expenditures. Moreover, paying men to kill or be killed appears to use them as mere machines and tools in the hands of another (the nation), which is inconsistent with the rights of humanity. — Immanuel Kant

I will be remembered when I'm in heaven. People won't remember my name, but they will know the photographer who did that picture of that nurse being kissed by the sailor at the end of World War II. Everybody remembers that. — Alfred Eisenstaedt

We made happy sounds because we were upset ... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one. — Ian Williams

'Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war. — Richard Dawson

I thought about the miseries people conceal and how they manage to survive. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Keep people reading books, Mum; it helps to reinforce and strengthen the indefinable moments that anchor us in the here and now. Strive for the long now. — Jasper Fforde