Serviam Guest Quotes & Sayings

Hold your beliefs lightly.' Certainty is not necessarily a friend of sanity, although it is often mistaken for it. — The School Of Life

In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back. — Vandana Shiva

Isn't an awareness of their transience what gives these moments their exquisite edge? — Robert Harris

Some individuals are better able than others to draw the right conclusions about the world about them and act accordingly. These individuals will be more likely to survive and reproduce so their pattern of behaviour and thought will become dominant — Stephen Hawking

The big risk to British lives in 2013 is in Afghanistan. Our troops, diplomats and aid workers have made a big contribution there. But while there is an end date for Western engagement, 2014, there isn't a proper end game. — David Miliband

In Lincoln's middle years, a loud insistence on his own woe evolved into a quiet, disciplined yearning. He yoked his feelings to a style of severe self-control, articulating a melancholy that was, more than anything, philosophical. He saw the world as a sad, difficult place from which he expected considerable suffering. — Joshua Wolf Shenk