Sawadee Thai Quotes & Sayings

I've never read anywhere that you have to understand everything before you take a feeble step in the right direction. — Daniel Foxx

It was really unusual to go from being in university for four years to all of a sudden acting every day. I'd never been able to do it exclusively like that. It was always sort of like my secret thing that I did privately. — Mackenzie Davis

The slave trade was not controlled by any state or government. It was a purely economic enterprise, organised and financed by the free market according to the laws of supply and demand. Private slave-trading companies sold shares on the Amsterdam, London and Paris stock exchanges. Middle-class Europeans looking for a good investment bought these shares. Relying on this money, the companies bought ships, hired sailors and soldiers, purchased slaves in Africa, and transported them to America. There they sold the slaves to the plantation owners, using the proceeds to purchase plantation products such as sugar, cocoa, coffee, tobacco, cotton and rum. — Yuval Noah Harari

Solvitur ambulando ... it is solved by walking. — Saint Augustine

I love the fact that Oprah Winfrey comes out number one [most admired women], regardless of who you are, because she has achieved so much in the business world. I think Republicans, for example, when Republican women rate her higher than Hillary Clinton, they obviously don't care that she supported Barack Obama. — Michel Martin

They don't tell you this in school, Everybody plays the fool. — Smokey Robinson

It was the Lord who put into my mind that fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures. — Christopher Columbus

Without realizing it, I had said goodbye to traditional employment. I never punched a clock again. I made my own time and my own money. — Patti Smith

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health. — C. Everett Koop

The overworked man was tired of everything, and he only kept going because he had long since forgotten that life could consist of anything else. — Jonas Jonasson