Aleksis Kiven Quotes

#1. The issue isn't
nor should it ever be
how weak our child is, but rather how strong our God is.

Tim Kimmel

#2. Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

Jim Valvano

#3. Stereotypes are the mind's shorthand for dealing with complexities. They have two aspects: they are much blunter than reality; they are shaped to fit a man's preferences or prejudgments. Thus two principles are involved: differentiation or its lack, and biased preferential perception.

Robert E Lane

#4. Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.

Rebecca West

#5. Dad loved computer games, and I would sit beside him for hours with graph paper, drawing out plans to try and forecast the moves he should make while he worked the computer controller.

Rhianna Pratchett

#6. For although greed of itself is idolatry, there was still the additional worship of the idols, or . Rachel

Martin Luther

#7. I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?

Wayne Huizenga

#8. The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relation of these successive forms, as stages of evolution of the same type, is established in various cases.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#9. She held in her hands for one brief moment the globe which we spend our lives in trying to shape, round, whole, and entire from the confusion of chaos.

Virginia Woolf

#10. There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.

Horace Mann

#11. Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.

Harper Lee

#12. None of the young women who wanted her position knew what her position was.

Alexander Chee

#13. Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera!

Brian Swimme

#14. One of the greatest challenges of becoming myself has been acknowledging that I'm not who I thought I was supposed to be or who I always pictured myself being.

Brene Brown