Vervecken Reining Quotes & Sayings

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

But let us assume, for the moment, that every three-day-old human embryo has a soul worthy of our moral concern. Embryos at this stage occasionally split, becoming separate people (identical twins). Is this a case of one soul splitting into two? Two embryos sometimes fuse into a single individual, called a chimera. You or someone you know may have developed in this way. No doubt theologians are struggling even now to determine what becomes of the extra human soul in such a case. — Sam Harris

As the soil of a garden is richer and as the harvest of the garden bears healthier nourishment from the decay of leaf matter and banana peel and egg shell and human hair and chicken bone and fireplace ash, so the accumulation of death in teh ground of a city implants therein energies and powers. — Tim Gilmore

You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening?
Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so tender! We are all of us pretty fine asses and asseses of burden! — Friedrich Nietzsche

You could ask me to teach you."
"Huh?" This night is getting weird in a hurry. "Teach me like you're teaching a class or something? What are you going to call it: 'You Too Can Be a Sociopath 101'?"
"It would be more like a graduate-level class."
I start to snicker. His sense of humour sneaks up on you. Then I remember who's talking and bite it off. — Karen Marie Moning

America is fascinated by crime. — Floyd C. Forsberg

They are coming to teach us good manners!" I replied in English. "But they won't succeed, because we are gods. — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

But the more insidious enemies of religion recognize but deplore religion's remarkable influence in the world order. — Jacob Neusner

I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression. — John Oliver

My peer network is international. It's people all over the place who I know, and respect their work. It's not really delineated by traditional nationalist ideas. — Tim Hecker

People will assign irrational importance to almost anything in quotes on top of a pleasant image — Colin Fletcher

I think of what we might say. Him to me. Me to him. I ain't no soft girl. I don't know no soft words. Be with me, Jack. That's what I'll say. Burn with me. Shine with me. — Moira Young

We live vicariously through stories, because our own lives provide so few opportunities for high-stakes adventure and noble sacrifice. — Sarah Cross

I find it strange when people can't relate to kids, because you were a kid once, you know? — Joel Edgerton

The intensity of her pleasure at this compliment surprised her, and she dropped her eyes. I but wear the only dress I own, and I misdoubt whether mine hair be well-combed even now. — Werner A. Lind