Wiefering Quotes & Sayings

For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one thing is done and little thought is needed to do it ... His hatreds can be expressed without censure, he can let his emotions run free, he can behave as dramatically, as heroically as he likes, and no one laughs at him. It is almost impossible for a man to behave heroically in the cool and ordinary times of peace. But in war anything is allowed him, he is praised and applauded and made much of, as women are excused and allowed for in pregnancy. — Pearl S. Buck

You can say that climbers suffer the same as the other riders, but they suffer in a different way. You feel the pain, but you're glad to be there. — Richard Virenque

The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself. — Moliere

Upon us lies the responsibility neither to neglect things because they are old nor to reject them because they are new. — Percy Dearmer

Certainty is not to be had. But as we learn this we become not more moral but more resigned. We become nihilists. — Allen Wheelis

Looking back with the infallible benefit of hindsight, it's hard to imagine that anyone believed we could actually have stayed out of that damned war. — Craig Siegel

I would love my older self to not be in the story of how it should have been, but to live in deep acceptance of how it is. — Boyd Varty

Canada's health system, or rather its 13 provincial and territorial health systems, need to find more urgency and resolve for solutions to its healthcare sustainability challenge. A measure of tough love will be needed to maintain enduring values but to change outdated delivery models. Canada stands at the crossroads and needs to find the political will and managerial and clinical skill to establish a progressive coalition of the willing. — Mark Britnell