Vissen Kopen Quotes & Sayings

Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies. — Adelaide Anne Procter

I want more from David Beckham. I want him to improve on perfection. — Kevin Keegan

Californians are worried about whether they will have a job along with ballooning federal spending and deficits. — Carly Fiorina

Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve. — John Archibald Wheeler

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken. — Gertrude Stein

Many people think that the theory of the selfish gene says that "animals try to spread their genes." That misstates the facts and it misstates the theory. Animals, including most people, know nothing about genetics and care even less. People love their children not because they want to spread their genes (consciously or unconsciously) but because they can't help it. That love makes them try to keep their children warm, fed, and safe. What is selfish is not the real motives of the person but the metaphorical motives of the genes that built the person. Genes "try" to spread themselves by wiring animals' brains so the animals love their kin and try to keep warm, fed, and safe. — Steven Pinker

Letting things slide is always the easiest thing to do, in parenting no less than in banking, public education, and environmental protection. A lack of discipline is apparent these days in just about every aspect of American society. Why? This should be is a much larger question, one to ponder as we take out the garbage and tie our kids' shoes. — Elizabeth Kolbert

Trust in Divine timing. Your future holds something far greater than your past. — Cheryl Richardson

It seemed unfair to me that people couldn't be something else just by working at it hard, by saying it over and over. — Emily Fridlund