Thawte Quotes & Sayings

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege. — William Beveridge

We used to say in the White House that if a place is too dangerous, too small or too poor, send the First Lady. — Hillary Clinton

She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out. — Fay Wray

I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage. — Adam Duritz

To shatter even the largest stones on earth, it takes only a small quantity of explosive powder. — David Ben-Gurion

Youth to youth, like the dragon-flies chasing each other, and love like the sun warming them through and through. — John Galsworthy

It is possible to adore those newly come into your world, to envision, no matter how late in the day, a happily entwined future with those who have not been part of your past. — Mohsin Hamid

I'm a little bit of a disaster, Hadley."
"Then, you're my favorite disaster, Jack. — Audrey Bell

Knowing the truth brings happiness. — Sylvia Boorstein

The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not. — Joseph Sobran

The same sensitivity that opens artists to Being also makes them vulnerable to the dark powers of non-Being. It is no accident that many creative people
including Dante, Pascal, Goethe, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Beethoven, Rilke, Blake, and Van Gogh
struggled with depression, anxiety, and despair. They paid a heavy price to wrest their gifts from the clutches of non-Being. But this is what true artists do: they make their own frayed lives the cable for the surges of power generated in the creative force fields of Being and non-Being. (Beyond Religion, p. 124) — David N. Elkins

A well put together unreality is pretty hard to beat. — Mark Twain

Toward the small pond that he had seen before. The walls of fire ended there. An instant later the remains of the cottage exploded. He ducked and rolled again from the concussive force, almost pitching into the right side of the wall of fire. He rose and redoubled his efforts, thinking that he would reach the water. Water was a great antidote to fire. But as he neared the edge of the pond, something struck him. No scum. No algae on the surface although the ground around was full of it. What could kill green scum? And why was he being forced to run right toward the one thing that could possibly save him? Robie tossed his gun over the top of the wall of flames, pulled off his jacket, covered his head and hands with it, and threw himself through the wall of flames on the left side. — David Baldacci

Looking in the mirror is very strange; we see only what we choose to see, good or bad. — Bonnie Langford

We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that. — Linda M. Godwin