Wieneke Family Quotes & Sayings

One of the first things to understand was how people knew what language to speak to whom. Where I've lived in the American Southwest, choosing to speak English or Spanish based on how someone looks is risky. If you try English and they don't speak it, you can switch to Spanish if you know it. But if you start with Spanish, you might offend: 'You don't think I speak English?' This can be the case if you're Anglo, even if you speak Spanish very well and just heard the other person speaking Spanish. When I described such an scenario to Indians, they couldn't relate - to them, choosing the wrong language wasn't embarrassing or politically charged. Or so they said. — Michael Erard

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process. — Maria Sharapova

Every encounter with the external world presents a conflict with a person's cherished inner world. How we resolve these ongoing boarder conflicts between reality and ideas results in tectonic shifts in our mental makeup, which influx we incorporate by responding to the never-ending chaos of a worldly life. — Kilroy J. Oldster

We used to live in a world where the price of resources came down steadily, and now the world has changed. You have a great mismatch between finite resources and exponential population growth. — Jeremy Grantham

Willingness to possess is the beginning of..love hurts. — Toba Beta

The study of yoga makes me inspired. And then the teaching of yoga makes it that much more real. The sense that this practice and this tool helps other people be centered, be present, and helps them really [be] embodied and [have] a life. — Rodney Yee

It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses. — Florynce Kennedy

We are not our best intentions. We are what we do. — Amy Dickinson

A man with an Irish accent could sound wise and poetic and interesting even when he wasn't. — Kate Atkinson

There can be no more laying of foundations, any more than there can be other incarnations or crucifixions of Christ or rebaptism. — T.F. Torrance

There are details within details within details to anchor you in the fact that we are talking about the real world, not an illustrated children's book fantasy world. — Joe Rohde

He who integrates is lost. — Theodor Adorno

There is a temptation for an actor to editorialize what they're doing. And you can't do that with Pinter. It's almost like a musical score. His lines are so specific, but they can mean different things to different people, like an alternating current. — Peter Riegert

The devil tempts us not; 'tis we who tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity. — George Eliot

In great humility, we find our strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita