Sjef Ernes Quotes & Sayings

The headlong stream is termed violent
But the river bed hemming it in
Is termed violent by no one. — Bertolt Brecht

In families one can't choose one's siblings. Within regions one doesn't choose one's neighbors. And if you are one of the world's leading producers of a critical industrial resource like copper, in the end you can't really choose your customers. China and Zambia will just have to get along. — Howard W. French

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. — Plato

Civilization began in the Fertile Crescent, not because it was an Edenic place overflowing with natural resources, but because it was so hostile to settlement that a village of any size needed careful management to survive. — Susan Wise Bauer

I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us. — Daniel Libeskind

People say home is where the heart is but my heart feels far from home i just feel like an outsider or someone who is a freak but i know one thing for certain love can make a family — Felisha Rush

A hardness such as this is taught by rough experience and despair alone — Anne Bronte

Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination. — Frederick Lenz