Willem Kolff Quotes & Sayings

Being an immigrant and staring life over, you learn to be a survivor and how to face your challenges and basically overcome them. And that has been a great skill set that I've developed and has helped me in my career. — Anousheh Ansari

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed. — Napoleon Hill

But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily? — Plato

The way of the samurai is found in death. When it comes to either or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be determined and advance. — Nabeshima Naoshige

For every hour of pain I have had a day of pleasure. For every moment of worry, an hour of content. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

If people knew how many people, especially the very rich and powerful ones, went to psychics, their jaws would drop through the floor, — Carl Sagan

Our beliefs are creating our reality. — Joe Vitale

It's as if he wants me to say he could have stopped his dad, so he's handing me a whip to beat him. But I won't, because I'm glad he hid. Glad he's beside me instead of six feet under. — Courtney C. Stevens

Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise civilisation and christianise Christendom? — Herman Melville

In the world of Buddhist mind, in the advanced states, we go beyond time, space, life, death and Newsweek. — Frederick Lenz

I am a pacifist, yes, but sometimes you have to get those bastards! — Kamal Jumblatt

Deleuze and Guattari describe capitalism as a kind of dark potentiality which haunted all previous social systems. Capital, they argue, is the 'unnamable Thing', the abomination, which primitive and feudal societies 'warded off in advance'. When it actually arrives, capitalism brings with it a massive desacralization of culture. It is a system which is no longer governed by any transcendent Law; on the contrary, it dismantles all such codes, only to re-install them on an ad hoc basis. — Mark Fisher

All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay ... — John Donne