Verschijningen Lourdes Quotes & Sayings

The word "idiot" comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the brain. It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy: men are so obsessed by public affairs that they see the world as by moonlight, which shows the outlines of every object but not the details indicative of their nature. — Rebecca West

I have been living in the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan and following its leaders' rules. The current leader does not allow me to exercise such operations, — Osama Bin Laden

I think people everywhere have a very dismaying feeling that politics are going over their heads, are being decided by wealthy interests that don't take them into consideration. And are bending the legislative process in their own behalf. — Alexander Stille

I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like. — John Frankenheimer

In a 2011 TED Talk in San Francisco, author and speaker Mel Robbins talked about how the chances that you are you are about 1 in 400 trillion. (Yes, that's a four hundred followed by twelve zeros.) This takes into account the chance of your parents meeting out of all the people on the planet, the chance of them reproducing, the chance of you being born at the exact moment that you were, and every other wildly improbable factor that goes into each individual person. The whole point of her crazy calculation was that we should take the sheer improbability of our own existence as a kick in the butt to get out of bed in the morning. — Sophia Amoruso

We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature. The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to more detailed studies, requiring larger statistics, which will pin down the new particle's properties, and is likely to shed light on other mysteries of our universe. — Rolf-Dieter Heuer

Being safe doesn't mean you won't be sorry. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

We all have our weaknesses."
"I know," said Iko. "Mine is shoes. — Marissa Meyer

Just follow that one road the whole time! ... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.. — Gregory Maguire

Duty is what one expects from others. — Oscar Wilde

We ask our brain to stop worrying, stop obsessing, stop dreaming the same scary dreams again and again. But our brain rarely takes requests. — Dan Poblocki

Truth revealed from heaven is worth more than all the notions of men. — Joseph Smith Jr.

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized. — Russell Simmons