Terhorsts Quotes & Sayings

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

We know that dismantling old oppressive regimes is a great deal faster and easier than building new flourishing democracies. Chinggis Khaan once said, 'It was easier to conquer the world on horseback than to dismount and govern.' True validation of democracy lies less in what we tear down, and more in what we build. — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. — Blaise Pascal

The older I get, the more I become an apple pie, sparkling cider kind of guy. — Scott Foley

Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. — Rajneesh

give a fig for the dead while they was still alive, or if they never gave a fig for you, because let's face it, as great a proportion of the dead are arseholes as the living. It stands to reason, although you won't find many funerals begin with 'he was a total pain in the neck and only half as clever as he thought, so let's put him in the ground and have a pint, and good riddance.' I've always thought that would have a certain charm, myself. — Nick Harkaway

If we do not show love to one another, the world has a right to question whether Christianity is true. — Francis Schaeffer

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. — William Cowper

Sometimes it seems that the world is a very, very, large, insane asylum. We need only not get caught in others' madness and stick to our own. — Art Hochberg

A Christian sits in his or her well and thinks that the whole world is his or her well. The Jew sits in his or her little well and thinks that it is the whole world. A Muslim sits cooped up in his or her tiny well and believes it to be the whole universe. The same goes for a Hindu and all others. — Abhijit Naskar

Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later. — Erin Merryn

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try. — Curtis Sittenfeld

My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy.

{Commenting about Louis Pasteur's accomplishment of separating two asymmetric forms of tartaric acid crystals.} — Jean-Baptiste Biot