Azana Baines Quotes

#1. To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. The best way to deal with climate change has been obvious for years: cut greenhouse-gas emissions severely. We haven't done that. In 2010, for example, carbon emissions rose by six per cent - the largest such increase on record.

Michael Specter

#3. Absolute tolerance is altogether impossible; the allegedly absolute tolerance turns into ferocious hatred of those who have stated clearly and most forcefully that there are unchangeable standards founded in the nature of man and the nature of things.

Leo Strauss

#4. Our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.

Karen Blixen

#5. What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It's hard to empathize with people who have different values than you

Barack Obama

#6. Simplify the complicated, untangle the tangled, follow the threads, to the heart of the matter.

Jane Teresa Anderson

#7. During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

Soren Kierkegaard

#8. It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so much fear of being unattractive.

Michael Leunig

#9. The only thing we have is each other.

Lynne Stewart

#10. They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

Carl Hubbell

#11. If I prayed as much as I pluck, I'd be the Dalai Lama.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#12. In truth, he who is not content with what he has would not be content with whatever he acquires.

Swami Parthasarathy