Confluences Lyon Quotes

#1. Keeping this facility [Guantanamo prison] open is contrary to our values. It undermines our standing in the world. It is viewed as a stain on our broader record of upholding the highest standards of rule of law.

Audie Cornish

#2. Making art will show you how much you already have. Your real treasures. A brand-new Maserati is a lot less beautiful to draw than a rusty old pickup.

Danny Gregory

#3. I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog.

Victoria Pratt

#4. I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.

Abraham Verghese

#5. I just stepped off the show biz bus and changed gears.

Michael Ontkean

#6. If you give people a firm opinion, you run the risk of being wrong. Guess what? People remember when you're wrong a lot more often than when you're right. So the tendency is to include all the possibilities. It's intellectually honest, even.

Tom Clancy

#7. I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

Mark Strand

#8. My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me.

Melissa Etheridge

#9. Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely? Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet Union or the peoples' democracies.

Paul Robeson

#10. When the ancients discovered 'Phi', they were certain they had stumbled across God's building block for the world.

Dan Brown

#11. Events in one area of our lives cascade into every other area.

Michael Hyatt

#12. It is not who you know it is what you know - If you don't know anything, you won't know anyone

Peter Legge

#13. Most people want peace without the aloneness of [spiritual] power. And they want the self-confidence of adulthood without having to grow up.

M. Scott Peck

#14. I always hoped for this spark of chemistry and compatibility, a flash of clarity to let me know that this was the guy, this was the time, so I should leg go and enjoy myself. But it never came. And by no small coincidence, neither did I.

Molly Harper

#15. Theo Wanne has done it again!!!!!! He has brought a new dimension in mouthpieces that will not only stand the test of time, but will be a benchmark mouthpiece for many, many years to come! The bar has been raised.

Jeff Coffin