Antanas Mockus Quotes

#1. Knowledge empowers people. If people know the rules, and are sensitized by art, humor, and creativity, they are much more likely to accept change.

Antanas Mockus

#2. You can tell everything about a person by what happens when he opens his mouth.

Max Brooks

#3. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fear.

Susana Martinez

#4. We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.

Antanas Mockus

#5. You have to understand me. There are no half measures here. I am your girl. I will be your woman. But I will never be your victim. If you ever try to turn me into that, I will sing your dying dirge." Her

Alex Bledsoe

#6. Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

Winston Churchill

#7. Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.

Stephen R. Covey

#8. There are certain parts of a classic nerd's brain that can destroy that person - obsessing about things to the detriment of everything else in your life. But those are the same tools that you can use to turn everything around.

Chris Hardwick

#9. Real love stories never have endings.

Richard Bach

#10. Though we cannot totally change our nature, we may in great measure correct it by reflection and philosophy; and some philosophy is a very necessary companion in this world, where, even to the most fortunate, the chances are greatly against happiness.

Lord Chesterfield

#11. For every can't, there's a can. Cans are worth money, so you'd better start collecting them.

Bianca McCormick-Johnson

#12. Our Father in Heaven planned the coming forth of the Founding Fathersand their form of government as the necessary great prologue leading to the restoration of the gospel ... America, the land of liberty, was to be the Lord's latter-day base of operations for His restored church.

Ezra Taft Benson

#13. In the land of sour grapes, the half-eaten apple is the queen

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#14. Bloody, broken bits of flesh make up what I think is a face, but it's hard to tell. It looks like someone carved it up with a cleaver.

Apryl Baker

#15. Don't get mad at me cause I call something a 'nothing thing'. I mean it's nothing in terms of the majority of people ... I'm not that concerned with my son. I'm more concerned with all people. I look at all people as brothers and sisters. I have no priority for members of the family.

Jacque Fresco

#16. If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers Let our grandchildren delight to find the start of our stories in their ears but the endings all around in their wandering eyes.

Julian Assange

#17. Nona had been bonkers since I could remember. Dad said it was menopause, but I had looked that up once, and I highly doubted that was the case.

Holly Hood