Vanderkooi Lecture Quotes & Sayings

Fear inhibits our ability to understand,
doubt our ability to trust,ego hinders the emergence of truth. — I. Alan Appt

I have no superhuman powers. If people don't want to make peace, there is nothing I can do. — Martti Ahtisaari

Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground. — Laurell K. Hamilton

There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers. — Andrzej Wajda

Thunderdome will never be boring so I'll have fresh battle scars when I die. — Jenn Cooksey

Investor confidence in Adani is fairly high, and most of our investors are long-term investors. — Gautam Adani

I wonder what sound a breaking heart makes? — Yuri Olyesha

The flavour of something fresh out of the ground is 10 times better than something that's been flown halfway across the world. — Sheherazade Goldsmith

Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and strip-mined planet and another with expanding organic harvests, growing solar arrays, and deepening global partnerships on a green and thriving Earth. — Van Jones

I had a horrible heart attack and still have symptoms of that sometimes. Then cancer, which is in remission. But the stroke is the hardest thing because I just lost my ability to speak and to write. — Clayton M Christensen

Any utterance of more than trivial length has no one translation; all utterances have innumerably many acceptable translations — David Bellos

Oh ... wow ... I don't know what to say. I want to thank ... " His voice broke and the tears in my eyes rolled down my cheeks. Bringing the back of his hand to his mouth, Kellan stopped talking. Shaking his head again, he slowly lowered his hand. "I'm sorry." His voice warbled with barely contained emotion. "My wife just told me she's pregnant. — S.C. Stephens

The butterflies did a slow orbit in her stomach. — Julie Anne Long