Contiki Quotes

#1. Its like a Contiki tour, getting on and off buses, getting pissed.

Willie Mason

#2. Yes, a guide can help point the way to your own sense of self and your purpose in life. No, a guide can't replace your own search. When you are in your car driving through town, signposts can tell you where each road goes, but only you can turn the steering wheel.

Deepak Chopra

#3. I'm plotting my own demise," she teased, keeping her eyes closed. "Because I know that falling for you will be the death of me.

Chanda Hahn

#4. Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.

Jonathan Swift

#5. Our life is managed from behind the scenes: we are actors in dramas that we cannot interpret. Of almost no decisive event can we say: this was our own choosing. We happen upon careers, necessity pushing, blind inclination pulling. If we stop to think we are amazed that we should be what we are.

Walter Lippmann

#6. ...[I]n any inquiry you are likely to attain more nearly to knowledge of your object in proportion to the care and accuracy with which you have prepared yourself to understand that object in itself[.]

Socrates

#7. They were frightened, no question, but they were not afraid of me. It was a fear of messing up and having to face themselves again, and facing the world, and the likes of you.

Markus Zusak

#8. A few years ago the idea that extreme poverty was harmful was on the fringes of the economic and political debate. But having made the case we are now seeing an emerging consensus among business leaders, economic leaders, political leaders and even faith leaders.

Winnie Byanyima

#9. The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith - and faith will triumph.

Joseph Joffre

#10. The greatest contributor to the feeling of tension and fear of war arose from the power of the bombing aeroplane. If all nations would consent to abolish air bombardment ... that would mean the greatest possible release from fear.

Ernest Rutherford

#11. He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.

Greg Mortenson

#12. I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.

Warren Farrell

#13. The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

Humphrey Carpenter