Swietliki Quotes & Sayings

The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative. — Vandana Shiva

The way to get started is to take the first step with dream-powered optimism. — Debasish Mridha

No one knows enough to be a pessimist — Wayne W. Dyer

What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have human-relations techniques or not, we trust them and work with them. — Stephen Covey

We must have bearers, and outriders, and perhaps an elephant - they are so imposing, nothing says 'Get out of the way' quite like an elephant in the front . . . — Neil Gaiman

Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses — Francis Chan

In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship. — Dean Koontz

We are all the sons or daughters of immigrants - some more recent than others - but all dedicated to the triumph of an idea that serves as the touchstone of what it means to be an American. This America is the only America that we have hitherto known - if being conservative has anything to do with conserving the principles of our past, then no conservative has any business bashing legal immigration. — Jack Kemp

A belief is nothing more than a repeated thought which you have chosen to embrace and implement in your life. — Stephen Lovegrove

One truth is bigger than hundred lies
say always the truth and stay out of tensity — MK PRINCE

Do you know the anecdote about Rubens? He was serving Holland as Ambassador to Spain and used to spend the afternoon in the royal gardens before his easel. One day a jaunty member of the Spanish Court passed and remarked, 'I see that the diplomat amuses himself sometimes with painting,' to which Rubens replied, 'No, the painter amuses himself sometimes with diplomacy! — Irving Stone

Are memories pictures or the secret doorway? — Lynda Barry

If the majority view, whether in government or in the scientific establishment, is wrong, toleration of dissent increases the odds that their errors will eventually be discovered. But even if the majority view is correct, as it often may be, it is more likely to be seen to be correct if it must defend itself against critics. — Angus J.L. Menuge