Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. ~Hans Kung
#quotes #hans-kung #poverty

When you are starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are." ~Tom Hiddleston
#quotes #tom-hiddleston #entertainment #judging

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. ~Paul Cezanne
#quotes #paul-cezanne #nature

Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
#quotes #michel-de-certeau #past #history #stories

When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it. ~Kim Yuna
#quotes #kim-yuna #olympics #skating #korea

Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
#quotes #cyrus-the-great #humanity #freedom

I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out. ~Yelawolf
#quotes #yelawolf #music

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
#quotes #william-makepeace-thackeray #writing #history #books

A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
#proverbs #yoruba-proverbs #knowledge #difficulty

There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio; I don't know that guy. ~Bill Burr
#quotes #bill-burr #brotherhood #ohio

Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result. ~Lyle Lovett
#quotes #lyle-lovett #horses #patience

You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
#proverbs #yiddish-proverbs #dream #night

Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along? ~Peter Schuyler
#quotes #peter-schuyler #bush

Talk to me when I am bored. Be with me when I am sad. Hug me when i cry. Care for me when I am sick. Don't ever cry for me when I die! Just treasure me when I am alive.
#love #cute

Whatever you choose you will repent because the other will remain and haunt you. If one needs absolute freedom then choiceless awareness is the only thing. ~Rajneesh
#quotes #rajneesh #choices

He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb
#proverbs #italian-proverbs #family

I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
#proverbs #sufi-proverbs

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs #hypocrisy

Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse. ~Japanese Proverb
#proverbs #japanese-proverbs #darkness

Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #action

If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #human #purpose

Good luck beats early rising. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs #luck #work

We had been busy building up fibre infrastructure under the ground in Hong Kong and underneath the homes of people, so when we launched IPTV, it was relatively smoother sailing than in other territories. ~Richard Li
#quotes #richard-li

Go to your duty, every man, and trust yourself to Christ; for He will give you all supply just as fast as you need it. You will have just as much power as you believe you can have. Be a Christian; throw yourself upon God's work; and get the ability you want in it. ~Horace Bushnell
#quotes #horace-bushnell #christianity #faith

A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
#proverbs #ancient-egyptian-proverbs #journey