Wielded The Gavel Quotes & Sayings

You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, "but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire planet weighs a little more; and when you stamp your foot, the earth moves slightly off its course. Whenever you laugh, gladness spreads like the ripples in the pond; and whenever you're sad, no one anywhere can be really happy. And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer. — Norton Juster

Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it. — Bill Murray

Tis hard for an empty bag to stand upright. — Benjamin Franklin

A global mind thinks about interconnections and interdependencies and their impacts and consequences, both on a local and a global level. — Pearl Zhu

Reading becomes the fuel for development. — Narendra Modi

I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own community. — Kofi Annan

I was that overachieving, annoying kid who was always trying to win some contest or win the role. I look back on it now and I'm like, "Chill, man." Calm down. — Mary Elizabeth Winstead

With Ferrari sometimes, you win or you lose depending on what the mood of the team in general, of the group in general. — Fernando Alonso

The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. — Felix Frankfurter

The government targets 'Anonymous' for the same reason it targets al-Qaida - because they're the enemy. — John Perry Barlow

My name was in the wind, and the wind was high above the snowbound city. There was no difference between the sound of my name and the sound of the wind. I was in the wind and the wind was in me, and beneath us were the crystalline haloes of golden light wrapped about the streetlamps, and the muffled plops of snow falling from eaves, and the dry rattles of the dead leaves clinging to the indifferent boughs. — Rick Yancey

A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy. — Brian Tracy