Staikos Associates Quotes & Sayings

Multinationals don't pay taxes in Africa - we all know that. — Mo Ibrahim

God initiates the salvation of man to express the Father's love, not a punitive deflecting of the Father's anger. — Garry Wills

Pseudoscience often relies on a witches' brew of scientific terms (e.g. "wavelength," "energy fields," "vibrations") half-baked into simplistic metaphors that do not correspond with testable reality. In some cases, pseudoscience simply relies on language that is deliberately vague and poorly defined to deceive. While outright lunacy is almost always easy to spot, the most dangerous of pseudoscientific meanderings are those filled with scientific terminology that, even for experts, can initially be daunting and impressive. Upon dissection, however, the terminology is invariably found to be misused, or used in a context far from accepted understanding. However convincing and artful, however much we may even wish the conclusions to be true, monuments built in such shifting sands cannot withstand the inevitable tests of time. — K. Lee Lerner

We must pray for more prayer, for it is the world's mightiest healing force. — Frank Laubach

It was an ugly fucking house. Even angry as I was, I didn't want to go in. If it is possible for an inanimate object to glare, to growl, then that's exactly what this house did. In my seven-year-old mind I saw it pull aside the vines. I saw it wipe away the moss and bare its teeth. Imagination is a wonderful thing, right? — Kendare Blake

I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor. — Gwyneth Paltrow

THE TRUTH OF THE VERY SMALL
When he is born, a baby's head is filled with the knowledge of space. The circumference of his skull is as infinite as the twirlings of the universe. His eyes look out with the blur of eyes which see for all species. He has remembered his own nature from past patterns. Now his heart beats through rock, sky, oceans. He feels the silence and the sound all around the world beneath his skin.
We all hold somewhere deep within us the truth we accepted in innocence. The seas, the forests, the soil, the atmosphere, are all vital parts of an ongoing system. By harming any part of it we must ultimately harm ourselves. It is that simple. — Jay Woodman

Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it. — Kate Morton

The miracle centered gospel leads to getting something from nothing. — Sunday Adelaja

The Point of Power is in the Present. — Tracy Morrow

Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well. — Ashley Olsen

If you don't take the time to get really clear about exactly what it is you're trying to accomplish, then you're forever doomed to spend your life achieving the goals of those who do. — Steve Pavlina

Put black on white. — Guy De Maupassant

Do you want me to have them sedate you until it's over? — Suzanne Collins