Schwenkbraten Quotes & Sayings

Perceptions trained in another climate and another landscape have had to be modified. That means we have had to learn to quit depending on perceptual habit. Our first and hardest adaptation was to learn all over again how to see. Our second was to learn to like the new forms and colors and light and scale when we had learned to see them. Our third was to develop new techniques, a new palette, to communicate them. And our fourth, unfortunately out of of our control, was to train an audience that would respond to what we wrote or painted. — Wallace Stegner

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself. — Herodotus

Open eyes will discover opportunities everywhere; open ears will never fail to detect the cries of those who are perishing for assistance; open hearts will never want for worthy objects upon which to bestow their gifts; open hands will never lack for noble work to do. — Orison Swett Marden

I like to buy things I can understand. I do a lot of research on things. — Warren Buffett

One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it. You only know what it is not to hope: You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you Or to fling it away, to join the legion of the hopeless Unrecognized by other men, though sometimes by each other. — T. S. Eliot

The sun rose and set in a land of dreams whether the clocks where right or wrong. — Patrick Kavanagh

American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them. — Dana Rohrabacher

Let's do it all. We're already tired anyway. — Candy Gourlay

certificates can't replace self-education. — Sunday Adelaja

"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it. — Sydney J. Harris

I'm just saying it's easier to kill a cat than dispose of a car. — John Dobbin

Let's play who can be a better killer. My sword and I love this game. — Ilona Andrews

The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates. — Horace

Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist. DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge. — Napoleon Hill

I am honored to serve on the Board of Visitors for Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. Being the first board member from Latin America, I hope to provide insight into the economical, social and political issues facing the region, and continue to grow and strengthen this prestigious institution. — Ricardo Salinas Pliego