Stari Most Quotes & Sayings

A few people insisted that the Cape-to-Cairo Railroad was in Europe. For college students, they have surprising trouble with geography. — Celeste Ng

There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet. — Rebecca MacKinnon

Prince William and Kate Middleton are in New York City. We have got to do something about immigration. — David Letterman

Competitiveness is just as much a part of our nature as empathy. The ideal, in my view, is a democratic system with a social market economy, because it takes both tendencies into account. — Frans De Waal

Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you — Jack Lasenby

Love is ridiculous and reconfigures everything. — Ann Voskamp

If you become the star of the show, you can feel the heat. Use it to your advantage. Feel the limelight. — The Eldest

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable. — Samuel Smiles

Christ pitied because He loved, because He saw through all the wretchedness, and darkness, and bondage of evil; that there was in every human soul a possibility of repentance, of restoration; a germ of good, which, however stifled and overlaid, yet was capable of recovery, of health, of freedom, of perfection. — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and enrichment. — Helene Grimaud

The first time she had tried to kill herself, she had intuited that there was no escape. She had seen, with sudden clarity, that her life was a series of boxes, a maze that she would run and run through and never find an exit, and she thought, almost peacefully, I don't want it. I don't want my life. — Dan Chaon

32While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man z gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. 33And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation. 34 a They put him in custody, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him. 35And the LORD said to Moses, b "The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall c stone him with stones outside the camp." 36And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as the LORD commanded Moses. — Anonymous

When we accept Christ we enter into three new relationships: (1) We enter into a new relationship with God. The judge becomes the father; the distant becomes the near; strangeness becomes intimacy and fear becomes love. (2) We enter into a new relationship with our fellow men. Hatred becomes love; selfishness becomes service; and bitterness becomes forgiveness. (3) We enter into a new relationship with ourselves. Weakness becomes strength; frustration becomes achievement; and tension becomes peace. — William Barclay

The same ten dollars you spend on lunch is all it costs for City Harvest to feed 37 kids who are hungry. That's pretty astounding. — Marcus Samuelsson

We know how to get all of the energy we need without using dirty or dangerous fuel sources. It is no longer a question of whether we can - but of whether we will — Michael Brune