Sjef Van Oekel Quotes & Sayings

I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one. — Lawrence M. Krauss

There are no simple solutions to imaginary problems. — Marty Rubin

Identifying a potential threat feels curiously good. You're like a gazelle that smells a lion and can't relax until it sees where the lion is. Seeing a lion feels good when the alternative is worse. We seek evidence of threats to feel safe, and we get a dopamine boost when we find what we seek. You can also get a serotonin boost from the feeling of being right, and an oxytocin boost from bonding with those who sense the same threat. This is why people seem oddly pleased to find evidence of doom and gloom. But the pleasure doesn't last because the "do something" feeling commands your attention again. You can end up feeling bad a lot even if you're successful in your survival efforts. — Loretta Graziano Breuning

An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions. — Napoleon Bonaparte

There are only two kinds of people who do not commit any sins: Unborn human beings and dead human beings! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We don't have women on these corporate boards. More than half of the students in law school are women, more than half of the women, I think, in medical school now are women. — Claire McCaskill

Carthage had a bigger drug epidemic than I ever knew: The cops had been here just yesterday, and already the druggies had resettled, like determined flies. As we made our way through the piles of humans, an obese woman shushed up to us on an electric scooter. Her face was pimply and wet with sweat, her teeth catlike. — Gillian Flynn