Wiebe Quotes & Sayings

My contention is that especially young, recently trained engineers are in a position to recognize and to react on a presumptive anomaly: They are trained within the technological frame but have low enough inclusion to question the basic assumptions of that frame. — Wiebe E. Bijker

The history of China's "land reform" was written in the tears and blood of landowners like my great-grandfather. But the 300 million poor Chinese farmers were victims too. They gave the Communist Party their popular support, hoping to improve their living standards by taking property away from landowners. Instead, they became stepping stones for the Party to abolish private property rights once and for all. — Helen Raleigh

I never looked around me because it might freak me out, because if you're up on a mountain you don't wanna like, look down. — Steve Wiebe

I think kids are smarter than you think. — Steve Wiebe

Those Mennonite villages in Russia are my heritage, but not my world. The world I feel and sense in my bones is the bush of northern Saskatchewan, of prairie Canada. — Rudy Wiebe

This is my party. This book. The book is good. It asks no questions. The book lets me engage it on my terms. — Kurtis J. Wiebe

There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge. — Fabiola Gianotti

Songs, stories are beyond value; they are the memory and wisdom of a people, the particular individual rivers of the sea of life which constitutes us all. — Rudy Wiebe

Our people... blood is the only language we speak. I'm all out of words. — Kurtis J. Wiebe

Worship is at the center of everything that the church believes, practices, and seeks to accomplish — Robert Wiebe

But nothing can prepare you for losing your mother. Nothing can prepare you for the suddenness of a constant source of love and support vanishing so quickly. And so permanently. — Joanna Wiebe

My wallet was getting even more anorexic than usual. At this rate I wouldn't be able to afford to protect mankind from the perils of black magic. Hells bells, that would be really embarrassing. — Jim Butcher

The apostle said he was "hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed." He made no attempt to mask his pain in a fraudulent piety. The Christian is not a Stoic. Neither does he flee into a fantasy world that denies the reality of suffering. Paul freely admitted the pressure he experienced. — R.C. Sproul

Anyone can change the world and everyone should try. — Chantal Wiebe, M.Ed

Any Canadian looking in the bathroom mirror is sure to recognize one of Guy Vanderhaeghe's people. Man Descending is the startling debut of an excellent writer. — Rudy Wiebe

Well then, who's ready to burn this shit-stain town to the ground? — Kurtis J. Wiebe

You've got bluebirds in your-- Yah, I know. Happens whenever I heal someone. Pops called 'em the bluebirds of healing. My beard is their magical home. — Kurtis J. Wiebe

Something like that. And — John Grisham

I'm conjuring up a little fuck you."
-Hannah Rat Queens Vol 1 — Kurtis J. Wiebe

To the lucky dead who will not be feeling this hangover tomorrow. — Kurtis J. Wiebe

I do understand that you can look into someone's eyes," I heard myself saying, "and suddenly know that life will be impossible without them. Know that their voice can make your heart miss a beat and that their company is all your happiness can ever desire and that their absence will leave your soul alone, bereft and lost. — Bernard Cornwell

Five hundred and fifty generations have lived here. Only the stories we tell each other will create us as a true Canadian people. — Rudy Wiebe

Business leaders, social justice groups, farmers and ranchers, doctors and nurses and people from all walks of life are concerned about the climate threat. — Frances Beinecke

The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need to speak. — Armin Wiebe

Tizzie, count the number of fucks I give on my fingers. Oh, I managed to conjure one just for you. — Kurtis J. Wiebe

The sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us. — Ashton Applewhite

With all due respect to Mick Jagger, who is one of my idols, I think it's a mistake to leap around and sing at 53. When I started, there weren't any women I looked up to. It was Mick. I never saw anybody go on a stage and have that tongue-in-cheek attitude. It was all straight, including the Beatles. I love his attitude, hands on hips and lips out. — Grace Slick

I think all the beer I drank in college created an iron bladder. — Steve Wiebe

One by one, the villager torches are lit, and a fire spreads through their circle until it blazes like an enormous bullion ring. — Joanna Wiebe

Don't ruin the moment by saying something stupid. There's elegance in things left unsaid. — Kurtis J. Wiebe

I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help. — Mike White

Understand is not the word; you are right, you can never really 'understand' about someone, anyone, even yourself. It is best to believe in them as human; feel that they are alive like you and need warmth, concern. — Rudy Wiebe