Telefonai Quotes & Sayings

My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me. — David Lynch

Impossible," he muttered. "Just impossible to reason with." "Don't blame me because you can't grasp the female mind." "The female mind is easy compared to that of a lioness. You're all freaking nuts." "Why thank you. — Eve Langlais

And so a miserable but possible scenario is that countries in the bottom billion oscillate between the traps and limbo, perhaps switching in the process from one trap to another..
Let me be clear: we cannot rescue them. The societies of the bottom billion can only be rescued from within. In every society of the bottom billion there are people working for change, but usually they are defeated by the powerful internal forces stacked against them. We should be helping the heroes. So far, our efforts have been paltry: through inertia, ignorance, and incompetence, we have stood by and watched them lose.
Let me be clear: we cannot rescue them. These societies of the bottom billion can only be rescued from within. — Paul Collier

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine. — Jean-Francois Lyotard

It is in the nature of helping and counselling to be a process moving towards something rather than arriving at a state of completion. — Pete Sanders

OK, so $1 trillion is what it costs to run the federal government for one year. So this money's going to run through September of 2016. Half of the trillion dollars goes to defense spending and the Pentagon. The other half goes to domestic spending - everything from prisons to parks. So there's also about 74 billion in there that goes to the military operations that we have ongoing in Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria. — Susan Davis

I don't want to live and die with every point that's being played out there now. I'm going to let my coach live and die with every point. — Andy Roddick

If it's a new planet, sign me up. I'm tired of driving around the block, boldly going where hundreds have gone before in orbit around earth-give me a place to go and I'll go. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson