Themeli Quotes & Sayings

Those that much covet are with gain so fond,
For what they have not, that which they possess
They scatter and unloose it from their bond,
And so, by hoping more, they have but less;
Or, gaining more, the profit of excess
Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain,
That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain. — William Shakespeare

I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over. — John Lennon

To me, there's a difference between going to a concert and getting a recording. It's almost like a different release. The physical album itself is the more meaningful one for me, but I don't want to tell people how to listen to music. — Tristan Perich

They say a girl becomes a woman when she loses her mother. You, child, were born a woman. — Edwidge Danticat

We understand that in this globalized world we all need to work together. As the Pope says in his encyclical, "Laudato Si," the Earth is our common home. — Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo

Sometimes we just need to cry out, "God, I want to hold you!" and let His love comfort us. - Jan Christiansen - — Gary Chapman

Portability is for people who cannot write new programs — Linus Torvalds

I've been known to do lunges down hotel hallways. I also like to use the ice bucket in the hotel room as a medicine ball. — Amy Jo Martin

A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom. — George Eliot

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too. — Booker T. Washington

With the insight that genuine literacy involves "reading the word and the world," renowned educator Paulo Freire helped open the door to a broader understanding of the term, one that moves from a strict decoding and reproducing of language into issues of economics, health, and sustainable development — Paulo Freire