Sakharov Peace Quotes & Sayings

God of hope, I look to you with an open heart and yearning spirit. During this Advent season, I will keep alert and awake, listening for your word and keeping to your precepts. My hope is in you. — Matthew Kelly

When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital. — Billy Eckstine

The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances - of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft-a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less. — Ken Thompson

He doesn't yet understand the outside is a shell for all of us. My beauty is on the inside, where it never fades. — Gena Showalter

An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is. — Robert Kiyosaki

Poetry is a big space and I love it. — Selima Hill

Guilt is our morality shame and guards our conscience. It tells us we have transgressed our values. It moves us to take action and change. Shame warns us not to try to be more or less than human. Shame signals our essential limitations. Shame limits our desire for pleasure and our interest and curiosity. We could not really be free without our shame. There is an anonymous saying, "Of all the masks of freedom, discipline (limits) is the hardest to understand." We cannot be truly free without having limits. Joy is the exhilarating energy that emerges when all our needs are being met. We want to sing, run and jump with joy. The energy of joy signals that all is well. — John Bradshaw

Rose carefully and gently pushed the growing pile of rosy-golden apples around each time another crate was dumped into the wagon. She waded carefully through the apples without lifting her feet, so she wouldn't step on a single one. Soon the whole wagon box was a sea of red and yellow, full almost to the top. She wanted to dive right in, it looked so inviting. She picked two of the reddest ones she could find, gave one to Mama, and they each took a bite.
"Delicious," said Mama through a mouthful, the juice running down her chin. "If there were no other food in the world, I think I could live on apples alone."
Hers was the sweetest apple Rose could ever remember eating. — Roger Lea MacBride

It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. — Ian McEwan

I never knew the word 'billion' when I was a kid. — Charles Schwab

Why should anything happen when everything has happened? — Julian Barnes

What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong. — Robert Kuttner