Tekun In English Quotes & Sayings

If we take a small step in extolling peacemakers as much as honoring war heroes, we will be making a giant leap towards peace. — Newton Lee

Guy goes into a bar with a duck under his arm. Bartender says, "Where'd you get the pig?" Guy says, "This is a duck." Bartender says, "I was talking to the duck." — Rodney Dangerfield

Hard-boiled eggs are wonderful when they're really done right. I bring the water to a boil, and then I put in the eggs. And then I boil them for - well, it depends on the size of the egg - maybe eight minutes. — Alice Waters

My position is perfectly definite. Gravitation, motion, heat, light, electricity and chemical action are one and the same object in various forms of manifestation. — Robert Mayer

The most common way Jesus comes into our lives is through a broken heart. — Rick Warren

I had to close the door on our friendship, because he kept climbing in through my window. — Jarod Kintz

Abstract love of humanity is nearly always love of self. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses. — Steven Wright

[Standing armies] constantly threaten other nations with war by giving the appearance that they are prepared for it, which goads nations into competing with one another in the number of men under arms, and this practice knows no bounds. And since the costs related to maintaining peace will in this way finally become greater than those of a short war, standing armies are the cause of wars of aggression that are intended to end burdensome expenditures. Moreover, paying men to kill or be killed appears to use them as mere machines and tools in the hands of another (the nation), which is inconsistent with the rights of humanity. — Immanuel Kant

Rex is 60 years old with 13 million images and 10 million in archive. It's the first time we've had a historic archive to work with, which is super interesting. — Jon Oringer

Political views are influenced not only by forces believed to be irrelevant but by forces that have not entered into conscious awareness. — John R. Hibbing

Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in his powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors. — B.C. Forbes

I was mistaken. Not because he would have hidden anything from me, but because he was a deep and shadowy well, whose bottom could not be seen easily. And not because he in particular was like that, but because people are like that in general, unfathomable as soon as we get to know them better. — Mesa Selimovic

The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis. — Ben Bernanke

At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world. — Charles Baxter