Veiller Quotes & Sayings

We live by faith and by the grace of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There are two principles here: one is the actual needs of the masses rather than what we fancy they need, and the other is the wishes of the masses, who must make up their own minds instead of our making up their minds for them. — Mao Zedong

A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero — Gelett Burgess

The function of education, then, is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but to be yourself all the time. And this is a most difficult thing to do: whether you are ugly or beautiful, whether you are envious or jealous, always to be what you are, but understand it. To be yourself is very difficult, because you think that what you are is ignoble, and that if you could only change what you are into something noble it would be marvellous; but that never happens. Whereas, if you look at what you actually are and understand it, then in that very understanding there is a transformation. So freedom lies, not in trying to become something different, nor in doing whatever you happen to feel like doing, nor in following the authority of tradition, of your parents, of your guru, but in understanding what you are from moment to moment. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

For whom, I asked myself innocently, were the riches and dominions that the English conquered and held on to at any price in the most remote corners of the planet? The neighborhoods which succeeded one another interminably down the narrow cobbled streets were not inhabited by the beneficiaries of those enterprises. — Sylvia Iparraguirre

Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist. — Peter Singer

Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go. — Martha Beck

There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots. — P.G. Wodehouse

Ethical vegetarians eat only plant-based food in order to show compassion toward animals and other humans and to benefit the planet. — Sharon Gannon

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it. — James Dyson