Wissbaum Group Quotes & Sayings

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another. — Charles Spurgeon

Tao Te Ching says that it is only through retreat rather than pursuit, through inaction rather than action, that we acquire wisdom. "Those with less become content," says the Tao, "those with more become confused." The poems, still widely read, have been hailed as a hermit manifesto for more than two thousand years. — Michael Finkel

Courage is adversity's lamp. — Luc De Clapiers

When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; at the same time, when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse. — Theodor Herzl

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist. — Robert Lanza

His point is that when the two seem incompatible we often hang onto the plan, ignore the warnings reality offers us, and so plunge into trouble. Afraid of the darkness of the unknown, the spaces in which we see only dimly, we often choose the darkness of closed eyes, of obliviousness. Gonzalez adds, "Researchers point out that people tend to take any information as confirmation of their mental models. We are by nature optimists, if optimism means that we believe we see the world as it is. And under the influence of a plan, it's easy to see what we want to see." It's the job of writers and explorers to see more, to travel light when it comes to preconception, — Rebecca Solnit

Pakistan would be confident after their series win over England. The series will be a very close and good contest and if all the players play to their potential we're in for some wonderful cricket. — Greg Chappell

The gardens at Rugeley had lots of separate lawns, paths, flower and vegetable borders, the pigeon coop, and plenty of low hedges, — Vanessa Steel

For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared. — Saint Augustine

I believe in the unsubmissive, the unfaltering, the unassailable, the irresistible, the unbelievable - in other words, in an art of life. — Margaret Anderson

The moon I see now is the same moon I saw before. Except that before, when I looked at it, it was in anticipation of what it would be like when I got there. That's behind me now. — Buzz Aldrin